GEOSS Community Portal Recommendations
AIP-7 Results Session, GEO Plenary XI
November 12, 2014
Ken McDonald/NOAA
([email protected])
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
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
Community Portal Role in GEOSS
GEOSS
GCI Architecture
Link from GEOSS Portal
Community
Portals
Discovery & Access
GEOSS User
GEO Web
Portal
GEOSS Registries:
•Standards &
Interoperability
•User Requirements
•Best Prac ces Wiki
Discovery and Access
Broker (DAB)
Service Monitoring
Component & Service
Registry (CSR)
e.g. GENESI, CWIC, FedEO*
real- me
search
harvest
Services and SW Applica ons
* Prototype
capabili es
e.g. So ware, Data Access, Processing,
Community Portals, Documents
Community
Catalogue
data
GCI Access to
Community Infrastructure
Helper
Applications
Community
Broker
Enables Integration of
GEOSS and non-GEOSS
Registered Resources
Resources
Providers
GEOSS
Resources
Community
Infrastructure
Seman c Component*
Integrated/Federated EO
Discovery/Access Systems
Clearinghouse (CH)
Register
Community View of
GEOSS Resources
GEOSS
Common
Infrastructure
data
EO data Catalogues &
Repositories
e.g. IDN, INSPIRE, geo.data.gov
Register Community Resources as Appropriate
Community Data, Information,
Services and Applications
Relationship to AIP-7
• Draft completed and released to AIP-7 participants for
review/comments
– Outreach sections nearing completion
– Instruction sections need work
– Best practices to come with GCI utilization
• 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