Title: HydroShare and the Water Community, removing perceived barriers to data sharing DOI: 10.7923/2kae-fr20 Description/Abstract: HydroShare is an open-source general purpose data repository for the water community, created with the goal of increasing data sharing and lowering the barrier to entry for FAIR data practices. We approach this goal by removing both traditional and perceived barriers to data sharing through an intuitive and general purpose, file agnostic repository. We have found that abundant and easy to access instruction in various formats, one on one interactions, and a flexible interface eases the burden of learning to use a data sharing platform. **Resource Use** *License* [Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) *Recommended Citation* Cogswell C. 2023. HydroShare and the Water Community, removing perceived barriers to data sharing. University of Idaho. https://doi.org/10.7923/2kae-fr20 **Funding** National Science Foundation, EngageINFEWS Research Coordination Network: 1856059, 1856084 US National Science Foundation (NSF), Award numbers: 1148453, 1148090, 1664018, 1664061, 1338606, 1664119, 1849458 Resource URL: https://data.nkn.uidaho.edu/dataset/hydroshare-and-water-community-removing-perceived-barriers-data-sharing Creator(s): 1. Full Name: Clara Cogswell Unique identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6594-5281 Affiliation(s): Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) Other Contributor(s): NULL Publisher: University of Idaho Publication Year: 2023 Language(s): American English Subject(s): 1.5 Earth and related environmental sciences 2.11 Other engineering and technologies Keywords/Tags: Repositories; Water Data; Hydrology Resource Type General: Audiovisual Dates: NULL Date available for the public: 2023-05-11 Sizes: 139 MB Format(s): mp4, pdf, xml, txt Version: NULL Funding References: US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1856059 Award Title: INFEWS/T3 RCN: EngageINFEWS - A Research Coordination Network for Community and Stakeholder Engagement Critical to Food, Energy, and Water Systems Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1856059 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1856084 Award Title: INFEWS/T2 FEWtures: Innovation Analysis Framework for Resilient Futures, with Application to the Central Arkansas River Basin Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1856084 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1849458 Award Title: CUAHSI: PROMOTING DISCOVERY IN WATER SCIENCE THROUGH DATA, MODELING, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849458 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1338606 Award Title: A University Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Science Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338606 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1148453 Award Title: Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: An Interactive Software Infrastructure for Sustaining Collaborative Community Innovation in the Hydrologic Sciences Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1148453 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1148090 Award Title: Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: An Interactive Software Infrastructure for Sustaining Collaborative Community Innovation in the Hydrologic Sciences Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1148090 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1664018 Award Title: Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Cyberinfrastructure for Advancing Hydrologic Knowledge through Collaborative Integration of Data Science, Modeling and Analysis Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1664018 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1664061 Award Title: Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Cyberinfrastructure for Advancing Hydrologic Knowledge through Collaborative Integration of Data Science, Modeling and Analysis Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1664061 US National Science Foundation Award Number: 1664119 Award Title: Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Cyberinfrastructure for Advancing Hydrologic Knowledge through Collaborative Integration of Data Science, Modeling and Analysis Award URI: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1664119 Spatial/Geographical Coverage Location: Study Area Description: Central Arkansas River Basin The Arkansas River basin from the foothills in Colorado to mid Kansas where precipitation is greater so it is no longer arid. Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Temporal Coverage: Start Data: 2019-08-15 End Date: 2025-08-14 Granularity of the Data: NULL Contact Info: Contact Name: Clara Cogswell Contact Email: ccogswell@cuahsi.org Related Content: HydroShare Website | https://www.hydroshare.org/ Data/Code Files: 3-Cogswell-Metadata.txt: Metadata in readme.txt format 3-Cogswell-Slides.pdf: Slides utilized during presentation 3-Cogswell-Video.mp4: Video presentation 2kae-fr20.xml: Metadata in xml format