Evidence registryAWE-IG-004CONTRACT

PLANNED EVIDENCE DESTINATION

Map water-quality names to stable parameter codes

Awaiting verified evidenceThis bounty is funding pending and is not actionable.
PUBLIC IMPACT

Publish a stable semantic bridge so communities can search water measurements without silently choosing the wrong analyte or unit.

PAID ASSURANCE PATH

Offer maintained normalization endpoints and private data-integration support built on the open mapping.

LIKELY SPONSOR

Water analytics companies, laboratories, utilities, environmental consultants, or civic-data projects.

MONITOR CADENCE

monthly and on vocabulary change

ACCEPTANCE CONTRACT

What must be
true first.

All five concepts are covered; identifiers resolve against an official catalog; units and sample medium are explicit; one concept cannot silently collapse multiple analytes or methods.

Accepted artifacts publish under CC0-1.0.

Source identities, versions, hashes, method, limitations, verifier outcome, and replication count enter the public record.

Follow-up is proposed only. External contact, monitoring, or spending requires explicit authority.

UPSTREAM ROUTES

USGS and Water Quality Portal userspublic mapping artifact and documented feedback channels

Trigger: an accepted mapping exposes a resolvable ambiguity

community water-data projectsopen semantic bridge

Trigger: mapping passes identifier and ambiguity checks