GEOSS Community Portal Recommendations AIP-7 Results Session, GEO Plenary XI November 12, 2014 Ken McDonald/NOAA (kenneth.mcdonald@noaa.gov)

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 Portals Link from GEOSS Portal Community View of GEOSS Resources Community Infrastructure Community Catalogue Helper Applications GCI Access to Community Infrastructure Community Broker Enables Integration of GEOSS and non-GEOSS Registered Resources Community Data, Information, Services and Applications Register Community Resources as Appropriate

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