Domain: Drinking Water
In the context of drinking water systems, we are focused on analyzing Infrastructure Resilience to Extreme Events such as earthquakes by working with agencies including LADWP. Our goal is to develop a toolkit that exploits robust simulations to identify seismic events that have a significant impact on water distribution networks. This toolkit will characterize different aspects of infrastructure resilience and enable ruggedization of infrastructure for community safety. To enable interoperability across organizations, we are designing the SWADE ontology. This modular ontology contains vocabulary to annotate metadata from an organization and integrate it with external sources, such as for instance, earthquake information from the USGS ShakeCast tool for near-real time risk analysis.
The architecture of the data exchange SWADE component consists of two parts: the SWADE client that would be installed at the organization premises and the SWADE cloud where external data and analysis tasks are performed. The SWADE client annotates data from an organization using the vocabulary in the SWADE ontology. Then, it decides using policies dictated by the organization whether such data is stored in the triplestore on site or on the SWADE cloud. The client also offers visualization tools to visualize the results of analysis performed on the data. The SWADE cloud integrates data from external sources including the USGS. It annotates data from such sources using the vocabulary in the SWADE ontology and stores it in the public triplestore. Additionally, the SWADE cloud contains tools to perform different analysis on data from organizations (e.g., analysis of infrastructure resilience to extreme events).
Many more details can be found by looking at the SWADE Ontology under the Products and Tools tab.