WWRC 97-05dd
The Water Resources Data System (WRDS)
Abstract
The Water Resources Data System (WRDS) is a
clearinghouse of hydrological and climatological data
for the State of Wyoming. WRDS offers a wide
variety of products and services to its users, including
retrievals for water resources information from in-house
databases, CD-ROM products, and alternate
data systems from across the region and/or country
via the Internet. WRDS is actively migrating its
databases to the World Wide Web (WWW)
environment for online access by its users.
Currently, both The Wyoming Water Bibliography
and Water Quality databases are accessible in this
manner. Cooperative data posting efforts with
federal and state agencies in Wyoming have led to
additional water resources information being
disseminated through the site. Online data may be
accessed at the following Uniform Resource Locator
(URL): http:/www-wwrc.uwyo.edu/wrds/wrds.html
Funded by an allocation from the Wyoming Water
Development Commission, the system strives to
provide the most comprehensive compilation of
water resource information available to its requesters.
Operating in such a one-stop shopping environment
mandates not only linkages to other databases, but
also the keen awareness of who the end users are and
how the data will be utilized, which can be as varied
as the number of sources of information. During the
1996 calendar year, more than 580 requests for data
and analyses were received and processed by the
WRDS office, while thousands more visited the
WRDS web site for online information.
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