GEOSS Community Portal
Recommendations
Team Report
Contents
• Purpose of Activity
• Team Members
• Progress to Date
– Information sharing
– Use case development
• Outline of paper
• Delivery format of document and schedule
Purpose/Membership of Team
• Develop a paper entitled “GEOSS Recommendations for
Community Portals”
– Originated as a action from GEO Sprint to the Summit
– Need reinforced at the recent GEOSS Vision and Architecture
Meeting at ESA/ESRIN
– Recommendations to build upon AIP and other experience
• Team members drawn from those who have expressed
interest in the topic or their nominees
• Team has architects/engineers associated with the
development of the GCI, AIP participants and
representatives from GEOSS user communities
Team Members
Ken McDonald/NOAA-STC
Martin Yapur/NOAA
George Percivall/OGC
David Arctur/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
Initial Ideas on Purpose of Paper
• To express an understanding of the general needs of
the user communities that are developing portals to
GEOSS services
• To explain the way the GCI can address those needs
• To instruct and assist portal developers in utilizing the
GCI components
• To engage the various user communities in
sustaining and enhancing GEOSS capabilities
• To leverage community resources of the GEOSS
Information System in addressing access, processing
and workflow capabilities
Progress to Date
• Kick-off telecon held on 4 November
– Introduction of members
– General discussion of purpose/scope of the activity
• Subsequent telecons focused on information sharing
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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 (future) – Arne J. Berre
• Purpose and Scope of the paper and Community
Portal Use Cases currently under discussion
Discussions on Purpose and Scope
• Paper should include community needs/requirements
independent of GEOSS architecture
• Paper should address a variety of use cases for community
interactions with GEOSS
– Multiple community portal types
– User clients and helper applications
• Communities will want to access GEOSS and non-GEOSS
resources
• Paper should describe and benefit from previous experience of
AIPs and other efforts
• Recommendations are non-binding but paper should describe
benefits of compliance
• IN-03 consolidated requirements for GEO Web Portal will be
translated to recommendations as appropriate
Discussion of Use Cases
• Paper will use full description of GEOSS architecture
to set context but use cases will consider subsequent
evolution and be based on implemented components
• Use cases will present generalized Community Portal
types based on existing or planned capabilities of
various groups
• Recommendations will be developed to maximize the
benefit of each portal type to both the target
community and the GEOSS user community at large
GEOSS Common
Infrastructure
Main GEO
Web Site
Registered Community Resources
Client Tier
Registries
GEO
Web Portal
Community
Portals
Client
Applications
Components
& Services
Standards and
Interoperability
DAB
Best Practices
Wiki
User
Requirements
GEOSS
Clearinghouse
Mediation Tier
Community
Catalogues
Access
Brokers
Alert
Servers
Workflow
Management
Processing
Servers
Test
Facility
Access Tier
GEONETCast
Long Term
Archives
Access Brokers
Sensor
Web
Model
Web
GEOSS Common
Infrastructure
Main GEO
Web Site
Community Resources
Client Tier
Registries
GEOSS
Portal
Community
Portals
Client
Applications
Components
& Services
Standards and
Interoperability
Discovery/Acc
ess/Broker
Best Practices
Wiki
User
Requirements
GEOSS
Clearinghouse
Mediation Tier
Community
Catalogues
Access
Brokers
Alert
Servers
Workflow
Management
Processing
Servers
Test
Facility
Access Tier
GEONETCast
Long Term
Archives
Access Brokers
Sensor
Web
Model
Web
Portal Out to Community Resources
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Simple link from GEOSS Portal to Community Portal
Community portal should be registered as GEOSS resource
Multiple examples in current GEOSS Portal
Lowest level of interaction with GEOSS
Could be first step toward closer integration and interaction
between Community and GEOSS
GEOSS
Portal
Discover/Link
Community
Portals
Access
Search
Community
Catalogues
Access
Brokers
Long Term
Archives
Use GEOSS to Build Community System
• Community harvests relevant metadata from GCI to build its
own Community-focused infrastructure
• Community Portal registered as a GEOSS resource
• Community infrastructure can support access and integration of
GEOSS and non-GEOSS resources
GEOSS
Portal
DAB
Components
& Services
Registered
Community
Catalogs
Discover/Link
Search
Harvest
Community
Catalogues
Community
Portals
Access
GEOSS
Clearinghouse
Registered
Access
Brokers
Registered
Long Term
Archives
Access
Brokers
Long Term
Archives
Portal In to GCI Discoverable Resources
• Includes Discovery/Link of Community Portal
• Community Portal provides focused view of relevant GEOSS
resources
• Supports integration of GEOSS and non-GEOSS resources for
particular discipline
GEOSS
Portal
Discover/Link
Community
Portals
Search
DAB
Components
& Services
Registered
Community
Catalogues
Search
GEOSS
Clearinghouse
Access
Registered
Access
Brokers
Registered
Long Term
Archives
Community
Catalogues
Access
Access
Brokers
Long Term
Archives
Utilize Helper Applications
• Helper applications noted by resource provider in Components
and Services Registry
• Applications discovered and linked to from GEOSS or Community
Portal
• Applications can include special processing and/or visualization
services
Components
& Services
Registered
Community
Catalogues
GEOSS
Portal
Discover/Link
DAB
Helper
Application
GEOSS
Clearinghouse
Specialized
Access
Services
Registered
Access
Brokers
Registered
Long Term
Archives
Community
Portals
Search
Community
Catalogues
Access
Access
Brokers
Long Term
Archives
Draft Outline
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Purpose and Scope
Background
Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)
Community Objectives
GEOSS Information System
GEOSS Evolution
Interoperability arrangements
GEOSS Components and Services
GEOSS Common Infrastructure
Community Portals in the GEOSS Architecture
Community Portal interactions with GEOSS
Experience of the Architecture Implementation Pilots
Generalized Use Cases
Roles for metadata and documentation
Portal information management
Recommendations for Community Portals
Resources for building a community portal
(tutorials, code, products)
References
Delivery of Document
• Initial delivery of recommendations will be a
published document
– Target delivery for end of 1st quarter CY 2014
• Ongoing updates are envisioned
– Experience of portal development efforts
– Evolution of GCI components
– New or revised use cases
• Options for delivery of updates being discussed
– Regularly scheduled document releases
– Website with ongoing updates