What is BS EN 14968 - Semantics for groundwater data interchange about?
BS EN 14968 covers the semantics (meaning) of data exchanged between data producers, users, and databanks, independently from the software device and the formats used to exchange the files. BS EN 14968 provides a consistent set of terms defining selected objects and their related attributes.
Note: BS EN 14968 is not applicable to:
- Data describing domestic uses (drinking water, wastewater) or qualitative aspects
- Real-time data or data calculated from models
- All the various characteristics of the organizations exchanging data concerned
- Debi metric measures
Who is BS EN 14968 - Semantics for groundwater data interchange for?
BS EN 14968 on semantics for groundwater data interchange is useful for:
- Construction and real estate businesses 
- Builders / real estate developers / architects 
- Contractors 
- Civil / construction / design / geotechnical engineers 
- Semantic consultants, surveyors 
- Safety and accident prevention bodies/compliance regulators 
Why should you use BS EN 14968 - Semantics for groundwater data interchange?
Piezometric data, e.g., groundwater level, pressure, and groundwater flow, represent a valuable resource and their value is likely to increase in the context of today at the European, national and local levels.
BS EN 14968 describe data necessary to produce "initial" groundwater quantitative data. BS EN 14968 is designed to meet producers' needs. BS EN 14968 provides file structure, piezometric concepts, interchange prerequisites, object dictionary, attribute dictionary for data interchange
Overall, BS EN 14968 gives the complete semantic basis necessary to store and exchange groundwater quantitative data. To perform such exchanges, you can use an XML file as recommended by European organizations also these semantics can be used with other file formats (text file, HTML).
