1. eInfraCentral Portal User requirements and features
George Papastefanatos
University of Athens

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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 …

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. eInfraCentral Portal
…some first Mockups

10. Mockups
eInfraCentral Home

11. Mockups
eInfraCentral Browse

12. Mockups eInfraCentral Browse Keyword search Service Categories
Service Overview

13. Mockups
eInfraCentral Faceted Filters

14. Mockups
eInfraCentral Faceted Filters – Address diff user needs

15. Mockups
eInfraCentral Service Details

16. Mockups
eInfraCentral Service Details
Quick Service Stats
Service Tags

17. Mockups
eInfraCentral Service Compare

18. Mockups
eInfraCentral Service Compare

19. Mockups
eInfraCentral Service Compare

20. Mockups
eInfraCentral Service KPIs

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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.

24. Who are your users?
Please provide your own targeted users
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25. Thank you!
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No