Design of a Water Knowledge Management Service Framework for Integration and Utilization of Water Resources Data

With recent advances in data measurement technologies and ICT, methods for measuring and utilizing water resources data have diversified, leading to greater quantitative and qualitative diversity but also to differences in collection intervals, units, and formats across datasets. In Korea, water resources data are produced for different purposes by multiple agencies and ministries and are managed in a dispersed manner, making linkage, integration, and utilization difficult. Accordingly, this study designed a Water Knowledge Management Service(W-KMS) framework to link, utilize, and analyze water resources data generated and shared by various institutions. We defined the datasets and linkage approaches for the W-KMS and designed its structure, functions, and user interfaces; the framework comprises a data toolkit and a knowledge map. The proposed W-KMS framework is expected to resolve the inefficient management of dispersed and heterogeneous water resources data, enabling effective use by user group, data category, and collection location.