PO.DAAC Web Portal Phase 2: Enhancements Rosanna Sumagaysay-Aouda Sandra Cosic May 23, 2012.

PO.DAACWeb Portal Phase 2: EnhancementsRosanna Sumagaysay-AoudaSandra CosicMay 23, 2012

AgendaGoals

Feedback and Recommendation Summary

UWG

PO.DAAC Team (internal)

EOSDIS requirements (tbd)

Enhancements -> Requirements

PO.DAAC Web Portal V2Overview of proposed changes

design ideas

functionalities

GoalsRevisit the design and usability of the current Web Portal

Feedbacks from UWG and PO.DAAC TeamWhat’s missing? What’s not useful? What doesn’t look good? What should be improved? Are you able to find the data and its information pretty easily? Can you get the data easily?

Identify Enhancements -> Formalize Requirements

Topics

Owners

Finalize Requirements, Prioritize, Plan and Schedule!

Design Improvements

Data Discovery/Browse Datasets

Data Access, Tools & Services

User Services

Search Engine Optimization

New Ideas

Content Manager

Drupal Developer

Data Engineers

Artist

FEEDBACK PLEASE

UWG Feedback Summary

Action #1 (LIKES) SUMMARY

6 Categories is a good starting point

Well organized

Nice pretty layout

Easy to navigate

Easy to find data

Animation of the month

Information Tab contains all information needed for dataset.

Speed of site is quick

Dataset Information Layout

Orange Tables pull-downs are helpful

Topics and headings in pull-downs are comprehensive

Search this site works well. Good indexing.

Action #1Please review the new web portal and provide your general thoughts about the layout, content and usefulness of the portal.

Action #1 (DISLIKES) SUMMARY

Front page looks busy

Maybe confusing for first time users.

Too many Block frames.

Too many header banners.

3 separate search areas

User needs to be knowledgeable of exact key word to enter in Search Field in order to get many matches.

Is the Right column needed? Put below.

Overwhelm users with too many returned datasets.

2 places to locate other data centers and communities

Data Discovery vs Dataset Discovery (what's the difference?)

Radar under Parameter.. But it's not an ocean parameter but a sensor

Fix Broken links in Pages.

'Ocean Optics' has MODIS SST , and Chlorophyl A

Sea Surface Topography' were GDR contains SSH, Significat Wave height

Soils' may be soil mosture or land water

Confused over 'Click' or wait for a 'Hover'.. For FACET vs Top Navigation

Orange pop down menu is persistent in Firefox (does not go away) got annoying. But Safari worked just fine.

At the Top navigation NASA Earth Data Navigation -> Data Discovery -> Real-time.. PO.DAAC link doesn't seem relevent, unlike LANCE.

Type-o http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanSurfaceTopography/OSTM-JASON2, launched June 20, 2008 and began data collection on July 12, 1008.

Missing link in http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceTemperature (For details about the layering of the top 10m of the ocean click here).

Action #1 (RECOMMENDATIONS) SUMMARY

Level 1 data type should be for experts and L2 and L3 are usable by wider audience. No coherent order

Don't mix expert level data and general user data.

Different Level of datasets listing should be carefully partitioned using separate tabs.

Pretty interface but doesn't make access to data any easier than FTP.

Make it simpler (easy to navigate) and less pretty.

Most important pages: Download Data, Description of Data and Projects.

Make Navigation Bar selection more prominent than 'Browse Datasets'

Include Global Dataset in Spatial coverage list.

Top Navigation Bar topics should be links and not animated drop down menu. (ie. Dataset discovery, data access, measurements..)

Action #1Please review the new web portal and provide your general thoughts about the layout, content and usefulness of the portal.

UWG Feedback SummaryAction #2

Please review the Mission and Measurement Pages.1. Are they useful? Complete? 2. Is there additional information that should be added?


Ocean currents & circulation shows no current mission. Altimeter missions are still arguably ocean circulation missions as well as SST.

Missions Met-OP and GHRSST under NASA/PODAAC? Not expecting this.

Some mission descriptions are very long (AVHRR)

Other mission pages have little to no data or ancillary information

Aqua limited set of information. Does not note failure of AMSR-E

OSTM missing link from http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanSurfaceTopography/OSTM-JASON2 … ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/ostm/preview/L2/docs/ostm_cyclelist.txt


Easy to Navigate

Useful and finds list complete

Some mission pages are complete with nice data links

OSTM is comprehensive

Likes how sea-ice has related links.


What is the concept of Mission (better definition) is GHRSST a mission or measurement

Should ADEOS-II be SeaWinds

Why are there Aqua, Terra, and MODIS under missions.

Would like to see related missions section (NSCAT shows ASCAT, QuikSCAT etc..)

Templates in mission and measurements need to be consistent/uniformed

Automatically include announcements from other feeds (ie. OSTST). Eg. Jason 1's safe hold information.

Related links should link back to mission descriptions.

Mission link at top navigation should go to a page similar to measurements that summarizes the options

Ocean wind, QuikSCAT mission needs to be brought up to date

Action #2Please review the Mission/Measurement Pages.1. Are they useful? Complete?2. Is there additional information that should be added?

UWG Feedback Summary


Forum is not useful

Not clear if what was clicked was either private or public. Color scheme may indicate not active for access. Low number of posts indicates not busy place.

Forum watch post cannot click on icon. Is this suppose to send email to user if they want to see the posts from this forum

Action #3

Please review the Forums.1. Are they useful?2. How could they be improved upon?

Action #3 (LIKES) SUMMARYLikes the concept of FORUM. NO real posts to determine if forum is useful though.

Likes the forum idea


Add OST forum

Request for comments on potentional new instruments (SWOT. Scatterometer) Add PDFs, presentations at science team meetings. List of related poublications.

Post answers to recent help desk questions. Accesing processing problems.

Link Forum topics from mission pages

Highlight forum like the rest. Currently only accessible once at front page.

Successful forums need a critical mass. Forum can be excellent excellent and would add value to the portal by alerting PO-DAAC to issues (e.g. of latency in real-time data sets) and exchanging code and best practice between users external to PO-DAAC.

Action #3Please review the Forums.1. Are they useful?2. How could they be improved upon?

UWG Feedback SummaryAction #4

From the home page, use the “Browse Dataset” section to locate two or more datasets familiar to you. Please Answer the following questions:1. Were you able to easily navigate to the relevant Dataset Information pages? If not, what problems did you experience?2. Comment on the usability of the navigation options (facets)?3. Did the Information Tab contain all the information you require to utilize the dataset?4. Were you able to easily access the data?


Information tab did not provide all the info required to utilize dataset. Would like to see a table of variables (possibly in the data access location).No Obvoius README me file to read for level of Directories in access. Directory/filenames confusing.Search for water vapor and dataset discovery returned maps of water vapor concentration from radiometer data. This is an expert product and general user might be misled by the way it's described in the browse section.

Asked grad student to download L3.5 CCMP wind product toook a long time.. Due to directory structure… didn't know can drag folder to desktop to get data. README file should've included this infomration in the main directory.Search for GRACE data and returned OSCAR surface currents. First thing to return should be GRACE GSM products.Platform search useless if primary products of search is returned in a lower order.

Search area (GRACE CSR, GRACE GFZ) returned 0 datasets.

Selecting a dataset (GRACE Monthly Geopotential Spherical Harmonic Coefficients GFZ Release 4.0 Unconstrained (GSM)) missing values for variables.

Daily file labeling for OSCAR will need to be more obvious to users.OSCAR handbook is linked at the bottom… best to link at front and center since everything is explained at length in the handbookNot sure how useful table view is.

Was expecting the Browse Dataset buttons to take user to the Dataset Discovery tool

Journal reference is not how to cite use of these data. A citation note that unambiguously indicated this dataset in the catalog – for experimental reproducibility – would be nice.

Looking for REMSS.. Quoted latency is 24 hours but no data since Feb 24, 2012But, in the latency “historical data” the “sort by” stop date returns no datasets. Perhaps the database is not actually configured to support this. Looking under parameter | sea surface topography | then searching for keyword “Jason-2” I get nothing. All Datasets›Latency: HISTORICAL choosing sort Stop date. Page 1 returned no datasets. Page 2 and on returned datasets.

Enter Dataset Keyword in already selected facets… but entering a keyword here searches the entire DB. Should only be within the datasets returned in the list.


Dataset Discovery.. Navigation easy.Facets work wellAccessed data via FTPLike the Navigation Space and Time and SensorInformation tab contained all information required to utilize the dataset Was able to access the data (single files though) but did not try wget or mass access protocol.Likes the browse dataset panel, sort functionality, contact a data engineer,


Search forum need basic search criteria ex: list posts by certain post date, topic, or author

Would like to elimnate datasets that do not span desured time range.

Global coverage should be included in regional dataset selections.

Need README file in the main directory of the dataset. Currently only available in DOCS directory.List of results.. Previous / Next should also be at the bottom of the page. Or increase the number of datasets returned for each page.

Each mission page helpful to list the most commonly-downloaded datasets separately.. Rather than a link to data search return for Browse Datasets for GRACE data.

Allow user to insert the start/end times, and collect all data of ONE filetype in between, as a zipped file.Provide README files describing the file name convention of dataset. Example: GSM-2_2008275-2008306_0030_EIGEN_GM60_0004.dif” and couldn’t immediately tell what dates that represented (esp. because of the use of DOY)

Overall, while your site presumably includes a whole lot of data, I don’t find it well organized. I keep imagining some poor new grad student getting told by his professor, “Go get the T/P data over the Atlantic from 1990-1992 so we can test this,” and getting to the site and being totally confused about what data he was actually supposed to download. The site looks pretty, but I’m sorry, it’s just not very effective at organizing and explaining data sets.

Provide links to handbook from README files in the FTP site.

User SCENARIO. 1) see what data is available, 2) see details on what to choose, 3) pick a time and region to download, 4) make sure I understand what I’m getting, and as a bonus 5) quickly preview the data and pick out a specific time and region (versus a big file with global data or a year’s worth of data, etc).

Action #4From the home page, use the “Browse Dataset” section to locate two or more datasets familiar to you. Please Answer the following questions:

1. Were you able to easily navigate to the relevant Dataset Information pages? If not, what problems did you experience?2. Comment on the usability of the navigation options (facets)?3. Did the Information Tab contain all the information you require to utilize the dataset?4. Were you able to easily access the data?

UWG Recommendation(Data Organization on new Web-Portal)

Make facetted filters functionality more evident:“filter dataset list”

color coated

Amazon (orange text for categories)

E-bay (roll over mouse gives background shade on selection)

tutorial (learn more) button for novice

Expand facetted filters functionalityallow “>”, “<“, range searches for temporal/spatial searches

allow multiple selection

Provide metrics on usage to justify reduction of similar productsGHRSST L4

Improve sort accuracyby Popularity does not align with UWG’s expected results for scientific discovery.

by Spatial/Temporal, spatial resolution -> grid spacing.

by Stop Date return the most recent first. (advantage for Nowcast/Forecast users)

by Latency (adv. To Nowcast/Forecast users)

Make dataset comparison table functionality more evident.

UWG Recommendation

(Web Portal)Maintain consistency and accuracy on data information pages.

Fix broken links

Check accuracy of “known issues” (eg. Altimetry)

Include consistent description for each dataset

orbit info, known issues

Inter-DAAC inter-operability NSIDC (cryosphere DAAC) -> PODAAC sea-ice portal

OBPG (ocean color DAAC) -> PO.DAAC ocean color portal

ForumPost past and new user inquiries along with correspondence

eg. OBPG

Organize by topics

Link FROM known issues pages TO Forum

Highlights Data Discovery / Browse Datasets

Improve grouping of datasets

Improve sorting accuracy

Improve ‘keyword’ search• For further search, search only in

dataset list results

Search by > or < or range for temporal/spatial searches

Select multiple datasets for comparison

Include Prev/Next buttons at the bottom of page.

Include global coverage datasets in regional dataset search results

Streamline datasets presentation pages

• table view vs. listing• use partitions to indicate different

processing levels

Expand/Improve dataset information page

• related info ocean stories, highlights, announcements

• links to forum topics from known issues section

• Add supported Tools and Services in data access tab (HiTide, SOTO, THREDDS, LAS)

Rate/Comment on dataset

Design Improvements

Simplify header banners

Simplify Layout (less redundancy, less block frames)

Improve presentation of dataset faceted search menu

Streamline Mission/Measurement Pages

• commonly-downloaded dataset• Inter-DAAC inter-operability• announcement feeds from related

projects

Streamline Dataset Information Pages

Improve ‘Mission’ tab sub-menu• NASA vs. nonNASA vs. Projects

Improve Forum Home page layout

Modernize PO.DAAC branding (logo, motto)

Add social media links (share and rate)

Systems Alerts/Notifications(blue) Indicates PO.DAAC feedback

Highlights

Data Access, Tools and Services

Standardize Header and Footer

Metrics (page/event tagging if possible)

Granule Tab

User Services

Help Desk / Feedback

Forums• Post past and future help desk

correspondence

FAQ

Video Tutorials

Metrics and Reporting

Publication / Citation

Search Engine Optimization

Wiki Pages

Link to PO.DAAC from other sites

Meta Tags in Web Pages

New Ideas

Feature Rotator on Home Page

Social Media Widgets

RSS Feeds (Federated content)

Slider Viewer access to Tools and Services/Data Access

(blue) Indicates PO.DAAC feedback

Misc

README files !!! FTP top level of data with info on

directory structure, filename convention

Include links to related handbooks (other documeations

Enhancements -> Requirements

(What’s next? … Where do we go from here?..)Next steps:

Evaluate, refine and prioritize the requirements

Collect more feedback from the internal team

Derive and finalize the Detailed Requirements

Review the level of effort, assignments, estimates

Create plan/schedule for implementation

PO.DAAC Web Portal – Phase 2

High Level Requirements Overview

Revisit the design and usability of the current web portal

What’s missing? What is not useful? What doesn't look good? What should be improved? How to improve the Search engine ratings?

Streamline the Data Discovery process based on the UWG feedback and recommendation

Improve data presentation and user interfaces

UWG , PODAAC & EOSDIS recommendation

Improve user community support

Be #1 on the Search engine ranking for ocean data

Design Guidelines

Keep in mind the main purpose of the site and the targeted audience

Web portal design approach

Key spectators need

Focus on key elementsData Discovery/Browse Datasets/Data Access/Tools&Services

Ocean Events Stories, Dataset Highlights, Missions/Measurements

Usability Data Presentation, User Interfaces

User InteractionNews/Notification/Social Media

Feedback/HelpDesk/Forum

Proposed Changes for the Web Portal Phase 2

Design Improvements

New Logo, Motto, Banner, etc

Home Page Layout ChangesFeature Rotator, Content Presentation, etc.

Dataset Faceted Search Menu Enhancements

Dataset Page Layout

Forum Home Page Layout

Add Social Media Links (Connect/Share/Follow/Rate)

Functionality Improvements

Data Discovery:Streamline the faceted search interface

Streamline the dataset presentation pages (table view vs. listing, etc)

Be able to compare/rate/comment on datasets

Tie in the datasets to related info (ocean events stories, dataset highlights, tools & services)

Data Access, Tools & Services Related Portal updates

Granule tab

SOTO

Community (USO)Helpdesk/Forums/Feedback

Metrics and Reporting

User Registration / SSO support

Search Engine RatingsUpdates to the Wiki pages, and add links to PODAAC from other sites

New Workflows

New FunctionalityRSS Feeds (Federated Content)

Design Improvements Ideas

Feature Rotator: for News about the Dataset Highlights/Ocean Stories/Images/Animations/Tools

Home Page

Condensed Content Presentation

Most viewed

What are people interested in?

Top Rated Quick Links

New Logo (tbd) New Motto

(tbd)

Portlets for Ocean related info from other DAACs

Portlets for Ocean related info from other DAACs

Add new things to raise up our ranking on search sites

State of the Ocean (SOTO)

DATASET HIGHLIGHTS

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ANNOUNCEMENTS EVENTS

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About Contact Citing Data Privacy Site Map

Subscribe Email Share PrintAdd to all pages

CoverFlow type of view for the Data Tools & Prototypes Catalog(or for a Visual browse of the Dataset listing page?)

http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/data-tools/search-and-order-tools

Dataset MetadataDetails

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New Ideas for presenting content



State of the Ocean (SOTO)

Portlet for Ocean related info from other DAAC

Portlet for Ocean related info from other DAAC

Subscribe Email Share Print

Add Social Media Links

Dataset MetadataDetails

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i.e.: Quickly Browse 340 datasets (vs. paging)

filtered search

Start New SEARCHStart New SEARCH

Subscribe Email Share Print

i.e.: Quickly Browse 340 datasets (vs. paging)

filtered search

Start New SEARCHStart New SEARCH

PO.DAAC Web Portal Phase 2: Enhancements Rosanna Sumagaysay-Aouda Sandra Cosic May 23, 2012.

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