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. A tool for seamlessly monitoring of service performance and quality across multiple service providers

Different user stories and views on the service catalogue eInfraCentral Portal User – Centric Approach Various potential users 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

Who are the eInfraCentral users? Two main user groups E-infra service providers E-infra service end users

eInfraCentral Portal Discover services of interest 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 …

eInfraCentral Portal Search services using keywords Service consumers Functionalities Search services using keywords Explore/browse a catalogue of services 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) Different filters on Service types and offerings Different highlighted KPIs Different rankings and characteristics for comparison

Increase the visibility of service offerings Attract new type of users 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

Easy Registration of services 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

eInfraCentral Portal …some first Mockups

Mockups eInfraCentral Home

Mockups eInfraCentral Browse

Mockups eInfraCentral Browse Keyword search Service Categories Service Overview

Mockups eInfraCentral Faceted Filters

Mockups eInfraCentral Faceted Filters – Address diff user needs

Mockups eInfraCentral Service Details

Mockups eInfraCentral Service Details Quick Service Stats Service Tags

Mockups eInfraCentral Service Compare

Mockups eInfraCentral Service Compare

Mockups eInfraCentral Service Compare

Mockups eInfraCentral Service KPIs

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

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

Who are your users? Vera Smith – Research Manager A user persona 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.

Who are your users? Please provide your own targeted users ....... ...

Thank you! This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731049