The HydroShare architecture is a stack of storage and computation, web services, and user applications. A content management system, Django+Mezzanine, provides user interface, search, social media functions, and services. iRODS provides content storage. A web browser is the main interface to HydroShare, however a web services applications programming interface (API) supports access through other hydrologic modeling systems, and the architecture separates the interface layer and services layer exposing all functionality through these web services.
NISO is where content publishers, libraries, and software developers turn for information industry standards that allow them to work together. Through NISO, all of these communities are able to collaborate on mutually accepted standards
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