GEOSS Community Portal RecommendationsGEO IIB Meeting, Frascati, Italy

February 23-25, 2015

Ken McDonald/NOAA(kenneth.mcdonald@noaa.gov)

GEOSS Overview

Elements- Infrastructure Components

GEO PortalDiscovery/Access Broker (DAB)Registries

- ResourcesEO data and services

Capabilities- The GEOSS Portal interfaces with the DAB to discover, search and access resources in the GCI registries and those within large, federated EO catalogues.- The GEOSS Portal allows filtering on science and application disciplines of the Societal Benefit Areas.

Rationale for Community Portals• As good and necessary as the GEOSS Portal is, communities still

wish to develop their own interface to relevant data and services– Provides visibility to their particular program– Supports integration of EO and non-EO data– Enables integration of specialized community services (e.g. helper

applications, data processing, sensor webs, model webs…)

• Ideally Community Portals will utilize GCI for discovery and access of GEOSS resources– GCI can enable CPs to present a community-specific view of GEOSS data

and services

• Communities will need assistance– GCI documentation, recommendations, best practices, tutorials, etc.

Community Portal Paper Activity

• Purpose – provide guidance to developers of Community Portals– Work with communities to identify and characterize functions and use

cases of community portals– Demonstrate benefits of utilizing GCI– Instruct on its use– Share experience of previous efforts (e.g. AIPs)

• Team – voluntary representatives from GCI component developers and interested communities– Good representation from AIP participants– Open invitation to new participants

• Goal – maximize benefits of GCI and promote community contributions to system of systems

Team Members

Ken McDonald/NOAA-STC Martin Yapur/NOAA

George Percivall/OGC David Arctur/Univ. of Texas, OGC

Yubao Qiu/GEO Sec Jan Rene Larsen/AMAP

Osamu Ochiai/GEO-Sec Oliver Clements/PML

Espen Volden/GEO-Sec Bart de Lathouwer/OGC

Stefano Nativi/CNR Arne-Jørgen Berre/SINTEF

Mirko Albani/ESA Lionel Menard/MINES-ParisTech

Doug Nebert/USGS Laurence Fleury/OBS-MIP

Martin Hogeweg/ESRI Mick Wilson/UNEP

Steve Browdy/IEEE/OMS Tech Guido Colangeli/ESA

Greg Giuliani/Univ. of Geneva, UNEP Gary Geller/JPL-GEO BON

Glenn Rutledge/NOAA-NCDC Ingo Simonis/OGC

Approach• Initial telecons focused on information sharing

– Energy Portal – Lionel Menard

– Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks – Jan Rene Larsen

– GEOSS Discovery/Access Broker – Stefano Nativi

– GEOSS Portal Overview/Demo – Guido Colangeli

– Portals of the Water SBA – David Arctur

– Portals of Citizens Observatories – Arne J. Berre

– EnviroGRIDS – Greg Giuliani

– GEO Climate Task (future) – Glenn Rutledge

• Community Portal use cases developed• Developed initial outline for the paper

– Purpose, scope, GCI overview and use cases– Structure for capturing recommendations

Current Paper Objectives/Contents• Dual Purpose/Audience

– Outreach – Communities at large

• Describe GCI and general capabilities

– Instruction – Community system implementers

• Tutorials, examples, best practices

• Scope of Paper– Originally limited to Community Portals/Clients

• Provide instruction and assistance in utilizing the GCI components

– Broadened scope to look at range of possible interactions between GCI and Community Infrastructures

• Allows GCI to better leverage community capabilities and promotes closer engagement of user communities in sustaining and enhancing GEOSS

GEOSS – Broad View

GEOSS

Community Data, Information, Services and Applications

CommunityPortals

Community

CatalogueCommunit

yBroker

CommunityInfrastructure

HelperApplicatio

ns

Community Data, Information, Services and Applications

CommunityPortals

Community

CatalogueCommunit

yBroker

CommunityInfrastructure

HelperApplicatio

ns

Community Data, Information, Services and Applications

CommunityPortals

Community

CatalogueCommunit

yBroker

CommunityInfrastructure

HelperApplicatio

ns

Community Components in GEOSS

CommunityPortals

Community

CatalogueCommunit

yBroker

CommunityInfrastructure

Community Data, Information, Services and Applications

Link from/to GEOSS Portal

Community View ofGEOSS Resources

Register Community Resources as Appropriate

Enables Integration ofRegistered and non-

Registered Resources

GCI Access toCommunity Infrastructure

GEOSS

HelperApplicatio

ns

Community Portal Paper

• Structured around GEOSS diagram– General description of GCI – Community Infrastructure architecture

• Each interface demonstrates possible interactions– Use case description– Tutorials/instructions and/or appropriate links– Examples– Best practices

• Document will need to evolve– Changes to GCI components– Expanded experience base– Refined community needs/objectives

Challenges

• Limited interactions to date– Communities are registering their resources

– Some use of GCI to build community capabilities

– Need examples for each interface

• GCI evolution– DAB, Clearinghouse and CSR architecture

– Changes to registration procedure

– Need resolution before making recommendations

• Support– Are communities motivated to use GCI?

– Are GCI component developers ready to assist community component developers?

Status

• Draft completed and released and under internal review (IIB, AIP-7 participants)– Outreach sections nearing completion– Instruction sections need work– Best practices to come with GCI utilization

• Plan to release document to SBA teams– Need clear understanding on state of the document

• Ongoing updates expected– Experience of portal development efforts– Evolution of GCI components– New or revised use cases

Relationship to AIP

• Community Portal Paper activity has been a participant in AIP-7– Information exchange– Draft CPP distributed to AIP-7 Plenary

• Recommendations document provides mechanism to share experience– AIP efforts described in “Examples” section– Specific AIP experience in leveraging GCI capabilities to be

captured in “Recommendations”

• Contributions from AIP participants is essential– Document current implementation experience– Guide development of community components and future AIPs– Provide feedback to GCI implementers/operators

• Greater interaction envisioned in AIP-8.