Model databank

Models, scenarios and results data bank for water management purposes. This is the model databank django app. Include it in your site. It requires Django 1.5.

General requirements

• models:

  • metadata
  • configuration
  • distributed file system storage

• regions:

  • configurable region properties

• scenarios:

  • result metadata
  • states
  • should be shareable among users

• rights and permissions:

  • scenario owners
  • model owners
  • owners can transfer scenarios and models to other users

• projects:

  wrapping models and scenarios per owner into a project

• various requirements:

  • import scenarios and results (?)
  • aggregations and aggregated results

• distributed file system (DFS:

  • models
  • results and states
  • aggregated results

General considerations

• admin

  • for scenario and model editing
  • adding user and permissions
  • admin engine: django, custom

• model storage

  • relational (django ORM, SQLAlchemy, own)
  • MongoDB
  • file-based

• metadata

  • metadata in json or xml or nosql (mongodb) or in relational database
  • file based: version-control in theory possible