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CyberInfrastructure Terms

Christina Bandaragoda edited this page Feb 21, 2018 · 2 revisions

... also see plain language pdf on Hydroshare Slack, Landlab channel)

  • Hydroshare- community supported collaborative web platform
  • Landlab- modeling framework
  • CUAHSI - the organization hosting the operational versions of hydroshare…?
  • Docker Image - {code that you run to load software and execute a number of tasks}
  • Distributed Data Storage -
  • Cloud based computing - via Hydroshare
  • REST API - the endpoint for communicating between HydroShare and the JupyterHub instance
  • HydroShare Resources -
  • Model Instance - all of the components needed to run a model: the inputs and the model, metadata...
  • Collection - grouping of resources
  • Publish - something that has it’s own webpage
  • Public - On hydroshare, requires an abstract and a keyword. Makes it so others can access.
  • Observatory - code that can be used to grab observations for anywhere
  • ulmo - a package/library of code that grabs USGS data
  • json - a type of file that supports metadata, way of packaging that can be easily read