GEOCAB portal 18 September 2014 IDIB meeting, Enschede Gregory Giuliani University of Geneva UNEP/GRID-Geneva Jean-Christophe Desconnets IRD

GEOCAB main objectives  GEOCAB = GEO CApacity Building resource facility Portal  Provide information that helps decision makers, policy makers, EO professionals and scientists become more familiar with EO applications and opportunities  Make freely accessible through the resource facility

GEOCAB rationale Several past and on-going projects throughout the GEO Work Plan have collected or are collecting information about Capacity Building resources (i.e. stakeholders' contacts, description of initiatives and activities, training material etc.) on different geographical areas and about different topics. The GEOCAB Portal aims to capture capacity development material and make them easily accessible.

GEOCAB base concepts Defintion: By Capacity Building resource, we mean any element of interest that can help the development of knowledge (capacity building) in the field of Earth Observation. This element can be human, organizational, IT-related, methodological, technical. Examples: a service for downloading images, an institution or technical experts whom activities are focused on Earth Observation domains, software dedicated to process geospatial data, methodological guides or technical user guidelines, projects or initiatives in Earth observation domains or promotion of use of Earth Observation data

GEOCAB base concepts The Portal will hence provide a capacity building resource inventory, sharing of best practices, strengthening and facilitating networking and collaboration concerning Earth observations capacity building resources, further providing possibilities for cooperation and coordination between existing resources facilities, and ultimately, achieving a better mobilization of resources.

Contributions Based on open source tool MDweb (IRD, Geomatys) and joint efforts by GEO, CEOS WGCapD (Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy) and the EU/FP7 GeoNetCab, EOPOWER, and IASON projects have started to identify capacity development opportunities and material on Earth observation outside the GEO community.

Resource Typology ESA SERVIR Program GEONetCast toolkit Reverb discovery Terra view guidelines Bringing Geoss into practise Crop Marketing tool

Description of Capacity Building resources Through metadata using ISO19115 metadata model

Main capabilities End User Discover CB Resources Access CB Resource provider Manage metadata Edit metadata Resource Facility Administrator Manage vocabulary Publish metadata

Current interface

Future interface

Some results 470 registered resources ( )! By SBAs [427]By Types [292] Biodiversity [246]Organization [149] Climate [252]Reference [12] Disaster [57]Document [26] Ecosystem [74]Service [110] Water [287]Product [224] Weather [205]Access program [9] Energy [247] Health [176] Agriculture [275]

How to participate 1.Ask an account to the GEO secretariat or the administrator of the portal 1.Add a new resource using the user guideline Useful links: GEOCAB FAQ: GEOCAB User Guide & presentations:

Incentives 1.Make your resources visible and useful to others. 2.Be aware of what other organizations are doing in terms of Capacity Building. 3.Coordination of existing initiatives and future planning.

Connection with the GCI registered in the GCI as ISO CSW end Point GEOSS ISO Profile

(Current) Limitations 1.An inventory not enough comprehensive, limited visibility from others access services, including those of GEO-GEOSS 2.Important work to input the description of resources and maintain the metadata up to date 3.Many descriptions are already available in other discovery services or portal. Find an efficient way to interconnect these resources.

Towards a CB System of Systems Achieve a better mobilization of CB resources and avoid replication efforts.

Next steps 1.Present the GEOCAB portal at the plenary in Gabon 2.Implement the new (GEO) portal template and new functionalities 3.All PoC’s have been contacted to add their resources 4.Flyer & documentation under preparation 5.Role and agreement of a consortium to ensure the sustainability of geocab, 6.Extension of resource description scope (inventory of initiative, project, event,...), 7.Implementation of pilot Cb Sos.

Thank you! earthobservations.org