The concept behind the framework is to facilitate access to the flood data through the waterRIDE™ projects, whether it be current specific flood studies, current master grid surfaces or archived data that has temporarily rolled back, and through the published flood products.
The general and technical end users, outside of the flood custodians, will have access to the list of published waterRIDE™ projects that will appear under Central Projects in the start up form. They do not need to know that Data Manager is looking after the data. Flood products have a different purpose, that is to support external processes or spatial data systems and the user will be required to browse to the Publish Folder and copy the required files.
The flood custodians have the key role of processing and storing the flood study data using the tools and procedures within Data Manager. The following figure presents a schematic of this framework.
