GEOSS Community Portal Recommendations Team Report

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– 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

GEOSSClearinghous

e

GEO Web Portal

GEOSS Common Infrastructure

Components & Services

Standards andInteroperabilit

y

Best PracticesWiki

User Requirements

Registries

Main GEOWeb Site Registered Community

Resources

Community

Portals

Client Application

s

Client Tier

Mediation Tier

CommunityCatalogues

AlertServers

WorkflowManagemen

t

ProcessingServers

Test Facility

AccessBrokers

DAB

Access Tier

GEONETCastAccess Brokers

Sensor Web

ModelWeb

Long Term Archives

GEOSSClearinghous

e

GEOSS Portal

GEOSS Common Infrastructure

Components & Services

Standards andInteroperabilit

y

Best PracticesWiki

User Requirements

Registries

Main GEOWeb Site Community Resources

Community

Portals

Client Application

s

Client Tier

Mediation Tier

CommunityCatalogues

AlertServers

WorkflowManagemen

t

ProcessingServers

Test Facility

AccessBrokers

Discovery/Access/Broker

Access Tier

GEONETCastAccess Brokers

Sensor Web

ModelWeb

Long Term Archives

GEOSS Portal

Community

Portals

CommunityCatalogues

AccessBrokers

Long Term Archives

Discover/Link

SearchAccess

Portal Out to Community Resources

• 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

Use GEOSS to Build Community System

GEOSS Portal

Components & Services

Community

Portals

RegisteredCommunity

Catalogs

RegisteredAccess Brokers

DAB

Community

Catalogues

AccessBrokers

GEOSSClearinghous

e

Discover/Link

Harvest

Long Term Archives

Access

Search

RegisteredLong Term Archives

• 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

Portal In to GCI Discoverable Resources

GEOSS Portal

Components & Services

Community

Portals

RegisteredCommunityCatalogues

RegisteredAccessBrokers

DAB

CommunityCatalogues

AccessBrokers

GEOSSClearinghous

e

Discover/Link

Search

Long Term

Archives

Search

Access

RegisteredLong Term Archives

Access

• 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

Utilize Helper Applications

GEOSS Portal

Components & Services

Community

Portals

RegisteredCommunityCatalogues

RegisteredAccessBrokers

DAB

CommunityCatalogues

AccessBrokers

GEOSSClearinghous

e

Discover/Link

Long Term

Archives

Search

Access

RegisteredLong Term Archives

Helper Applicatio

n

SpecializedAccess

Services

• 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

Draft Outline1. Purpose and Scope

2. Background

2.1 Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)

2.2 GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)

2.3 Community Objectives

3. GEOSS Information System

3.1 GEOSS Evolution

3.2 Interoperability arrangements

3.3 GEOSS Components and Services

3.4 GEOSS Common Infrastructure

3.5 Community Portals in the GEOSS Architecture

4. Community Portal interactions with GEOSS

4.1 Experience of the Architecture Implementation Pilots

4.2 Generalized Use Cases

4.3 Roles for metadata and documentation

4.4 Portal information management

5. Recommendations for Community Portals

6. Resources for building a community portal

(tutorials, code, products)

7. 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