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1: 1.1 About CalSWIM
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3: CalSWIM is an ongoing project with the goal of facilitating
4: open, coordinated, integrated, and informed decisions for
5: those interested in water resources. With initial focus on California, CalSWIM provides a
6: framework for engaging water management professionals, scientists, and
7: the general public in the process of sharing information about water
8: resources, therefore
9: benefiting from critical open supervision of the content, and
10: from valuable volunteer contributions that cannot occur in a closed
11: infrastructure. The current work aims at creating a public and easily
12: updatable information infrastructure of "all things watershed" that
13: includes all watersheds in
14: California.
15: 
16: *For contributors*. In CalSWIM you can:
17: create your own pages with watershed information, add and correct
18: certain pages created by others, add events, upload documents (images,
19: Word and PDF files, Excel spreadsheets, etc.), make your publicly
20: accessible relational database available to others, view data available
21: in the linked databases, create tables and charts with data from linked databases, create maps with data from linked databases, and much more! [More...>Info+for+Contributors]
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23: *Attribution and access control*. Given
24: that this wiki relates to data that is often the basis for important
25: strategic water management policies, it takes attribution and access
26: control very seriously. Unlike Wikipedia, where all pages can be edited
27: by everyone, even anonymous web surfers, CalSWIM requires a
28: registration to anyone wanting to contribute. From then on, all actions
29: made by contributors are attributed to those contributors, so everyone
30: can see who did what. Also, while all pages can be viewed by everyone,
31: some pages can only be edited by specific users. [More...>Access+Control]
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33: 1.1.1 Historical Context
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35: The CalSWIM project started in 2004 under the supervision of UCI professors Crista Lopes and Stanley Grant, and from a contract with the Orange County Stormwater Program. Like so many other scientific cyberinfrastructures, the CalSWIM web
36: site started as a closed infrastructure, i.e. its update has been
37: controlled by a small number of individuals, and any changes to it
38: required the intervention of web&#45;knowledgeable professionals. This model
39: does not scale to the ambition of the CalSWIM project. In order to make
40: this cyberinfrastructure sustainable, expandable, outreaching, and
41: continually up&#45;to&#45;date, starting in 2007 we transformed CalSWIM into an
42: Open Collaborative Information Repository, in the form of a wiki with
43: advanced content management features, including databases, maps,
44: and other forms of digital data.
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46: Open information infrastructures such as the one we are developing are
47: sometimes met with skepticism from their users. The chaotic nature of
48: Wikipedia (one the most visible collaborative information repositories) is not appropriate for open cyberinfrastructures supporting
49: collaboration over scientific and regulatory information. The CalSWIM
50: wiki takes issues of trust and credibility into consideration
51: in its design. Trust is a complex concept based on personal and social
52: factors, that includes assurances about data security, knowledge about
53: data provenance, knowledge about authors’ reputations, and assurances
54: about author attribution (citations and quotations) in uncontrolled
55: contexts.
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57: 1.1.1 Current Support
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59: Part of the CalSWIM Wiki project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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61: 1.1.1 Contact
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63: For any matters pertaining to this wiki, please contact Prof. Crista Lopes (lopes ~~at~~ uci ~~dot~~ edu).
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65: 1.1.1 Credits
66: 
67: * *UCI Faculty*
68: ** Prof. [Stan Grant>http://www.eng.uci.edu/user/53], Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences
69: ** Prof. [Crista Videira Lopes>http://ics.uci.edu/~lopes], Department of Informatics
70: * *UCI Students*
71: ** [Yasser Ganjisaffar>http://ics.uci.edu/~yganjisa]
72: ** [Sushil Krishna Bajracharya>http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sbajrach]
73: ** Barry Doyle
74: ** Amir Haghighat
75: ** Abhishek Pednekar
76: * *UC staff*
77: ** Darren Haver
78: * *OCGOV supervisor*
79: ** Chris Crompton
80: * *OCGOV staff*
81: ** Amanda Carr
82: ** Carmen Oancea
83: * *OCGOV consultant*
84: ** Brock Bernstein
85: * *Tetra Tech staff*
86: ** Steve Parker
87: ** Patti Sexton
88: * *The National Science Foundation*
89: ** Office of Cyberinfrastructure
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