eInfraCentral Portal
User requirements and features
George Papastefanatos
University of Athens
eInfraCentral Portal
Towards a European Open Science Cloud
• A common harmonised catalogue of e-Infrastructures services
• A “one-stop shop” for end users to access and compare services
• A single point of reference for researchers and the broad community
to provide access and make services and resources discoverable.
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• A tool for seamlessly monitoring of service performance and quality
across multiple service providers
eInfraCentral Portal
User – Centric Approach
Various potential users
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Individual Researchers
Research Communities
Data & Content providers
Research Administrators
Funders
Policy Makers
SMEs
Citizen Scientists (Public)
Different user stories and views on the service catalogue
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Who are the eInfraCentral users?
Two main user groups
E-infra service providers
E-infra service end users
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eInfraCentral Portal
Service consumers Wish List
• Discover services of interest
• Save time for comparing various service offerings
(e.g. by price, features)
• Judge on the relevance of the offered services
• Request access more easily to services that I am
interested to use
• Identify gaps in the offered services
• Rate experience with the used services for service
improvements
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eInfraCentral Portal
Service consumers Functionalities
• Search services using keywords
• Explore/browse a catalogue of services
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Browse through specific filters (faceted search)
View services organized per category
View details for a specific service
View key performance indicators (KPIs) for a specific service
• Compare service characteristics and KPIs
• Visually explore service stats & KPIs through different types of graphs
• Different Views based on the user group & area of interest (researcher,
funder, etc)
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Different filters on Service types and offerings
Different highlighted KPIs
Different rankings and characteristics for comparison
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eInfraCentral Portal
Service providers Wish List
• Increase the visibility of service offerings
• Attract new type of users
• Streamline service descriptions according
to a common typology and definitions
• Become part of an EU-wide initiative
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eInfraCentral Portal
Service providers Functionalities
• Easy Registration of services
• Prefilled fields and suggestions
• Uniform service description & comparable service offerings across
e-Infrastructures
• Management of service access requests
• Customer feedback gathering
• Harvesting and Recording of service KPIS through time
• Monitoring and Advanced Visualization of service KPIs
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eInfraCentral Portal
…some first Mockups
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Mockups
eInfraCentral Home
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eInfraCentral Browse
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eInfraCentral Browse
Keyword search
Service Categories
Service Overview
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eInfraCentral Faceted Filters
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eInfraCentral Faceted Filters – Address diff user needs
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eInfraCentral Service Details
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eInfraCentral Service Details
Quick Service Stats
Service Tags
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eInfraCentral Service Compare
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eInfraCentral Service Compare
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eInfraCentral Service Compare
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eInfraCentral Service KPIs
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Who are the eInfraCentral users?
The e-infra consumers
• eInfraCentral service consumer needs will define the platform
functional requirements, design and implemented functionality
• We need to identify our consumers and their needs early on
The input of all e-Infra partners is crucial
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Who are the eInfraCentral users?
Next steps
• Each e-Infra describe their own user groups
• The recorded user groups are compiled in a common list of targeted
users for eInfraCentral
• Personas are created for each user group
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Who are your users?
A user persona
Vera Smith – Research Manager
• 36 years old physics professor, basic computer expertise
• Her team produces terabytes of experiment data
• She is looking for a cost-effective storage solution
• She needs to make sub-sets of the data open access
and link them to publications
• She would like to be able to easily explore and compare
different solutions presented in a single platform.
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Who are your users?
Please provide your own targeted users
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Thank you!
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No
731049
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