Waterproofing Data Platform

Waterproofing Data investigates the governance of water-related risks, with a focus on social and cultural aspects of data practices. The project has been conducted by a highly skilled international team of researchers with multiple disciplinary backgrounds from Brazil, Germany and the UK, in close partnership with researchers, stakeholders and the public of a multi-site case study on flood risk management in Brazil. Furthermore, the methods and results of this case study will be the basis for a transcultural dialogue with government organisations and local administrations involved in flood risk management in Germany and the United Kingdom.

This repository compiles the different components developed for the Waterproofing Data project. It includes the different elements working together to make possible the integration of citizen-generated data about flooding and official rainfall records. The platform supports two interfaces: a mobile application for flood data collection and a dashboard for aggregated and site-specific data visualisation. The platform uses a data lake to ingest different data types and formats that combine azure function and azure data lake gen2 technologies. To complete the technological stack, there are transformation functions, a metadata-oriented database, a user authentication module and a query API to enable data access.

The idea of a platform aims at implementing a novel reference architecture that brings together cutting-edge technologies to citizen science. Therefore, the data platform is designed and implemented to support data production and integration for other risk-related events potentially.