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Abstract

Maintenance and monitoring of aquatic systems such lakes, reservoirs and river involves properly documented, valid, and comprehensible data archives. However, aquatic data are collected and kept separately, creating difficulties in data integration. For effective aquatic data management it is important to have databases metadata that have been validated. This study aims to discuss framework for aquatic data warehouse system using web services for sharing database components using standard format and common data exchange method to foster easier data integration and exchange. The key features of the data warehouse comprises of graphical user interface (GUI) developed using ASP.Net. XML to represent metadata for data exchange and transfer, Darwin Core for formatting ecological and biological data management for data exchange protocol in this study.