Phase 2 – Implementation Goals

The National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Hydrologic Development (OHD) is sponsoring the second phase of HydroXC's work. In September 2005, OHD tasked Apex with a second phase of activities to advance the goals of the HydroXC as follows:

• Conduct Research: Survey all 13 NWS River Forecast Centers (RFCs) regarding their knowledge and use of XML in any form, and document the findings.
• Conduct Development: Collect additional data samples from members of the HydroXC and from RFCs and represent them in HydroXC XML format. As part of these activities, make any changes required in the HydroXC XML schema to enable appropriate modeling of such data. In addition, analyze the OHD applications FLDWAV and FLDVIEW and how they exchange data with each other, with the objective of designing a HydroXC XML-based data exchange format for the applications.
• Conduct Community Building: Continue to interact with Consortium members and conduct several meetings or conference calls for presentations on relevant topics, improvement of the XML schema, and general discussions about the use of XML in day-to-day hydrologic activities.