Water Quality Data Exchange

The Exchange Network is a web services based approach to environmental data sharing in use by USEPA, State and Tribal environmental agencies and others, to exchange and improve access to wide range of data. This talk will briefly introduce the Exchange Network and one its "flows" the Water Quality Data Exchange (WQX), which is focuses on supporting the exchange of water quality data. WQX includes a standardized XML format, business practices for loading data into EPA (and other) aggregation points, options for web service based data access.