1. Community Portal Interactions with GEOSS GEO-XII Plenary November 9, Ken McDonald/NOAA

2. GEOSS Common Infrastructure
GCI Role in GEOSS
GCI key components:
Componentand Services Registry(CSR)
Discovery andAccess Broker(DAB)
GEOSS Portal
Development/evolution continues
We’re all familiar with the GEOSS Common Infrastructure.

3. Community Portal Paper Activity
Purpose – provide guidance to developers of community portals and other components
Work with communities to identify and characterize functions and use cases
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
To encourage greater utilization of the GCI a set of recommendations are being developed with the purpose of providing…

4. Community Portal Role in GEOSS
Community View of
GEOSS Resources
The original idea was to focus on providing a community view of GEOSS resources from their respective portals.

5. Community Contributions to GEOSS
Community Data, Information, Services and Applications
Community
Portals
Catalogue
Broker
Infrastructure
Helper
Applications
Community Data, Information, Services and Applications
Community
Portals
Catalogue
Broker
Infrastructure
Helper
Applications
Community Data, Information, Services and Applications
Community
Portals
Catalogue
Broker
Infrastructure
Helper
Applications
However, communities are or have developed other components that can leverage the GCI and contribute to GEOSS.

6. Community Systems Interactions with GEOSS
Link to/from GEOSS Portal
Community View of
GEOSS Resources
GCI Access to
Community Infrastructure
Enables Integration of
GEOSS and non-GEOSS
Registered Resources
This figure illustrates some of the ways that the GCI and community components can interoperate.
The portals can provide direct links to each other.
The community portal can provide a community view of registered resources.
The GCI (DAB) can utilize the catalogs, brokers, applications, etc. developed by the respective communities.
Common access methods can be used to integrate registered and community-specific resources.
As appropriate, Earth observation resources developed or made available within communities should be registered within the GCI.
Register Community Resources as Appropriate

7. Community Portal Paper
Structured around GEOSS diagram
General description of GCI – Community Infrastructure architecture
Each interface demonstrates possible interactions
Interactions will vary across different communities
Two-way interfaces – enables utilization and contribution to GEOSS
Feedback mechanism - Use of GCI will identify issues that need to be addressed
Document will need to evolve
Changes to GCI components
Expanded experience base
Refined community needs/objectives

8. Community Portals Near Term Plans
Direct engagement with community projects
CEOS Water Portal
GEO Energy Portal
Citizen Observatories
UNEP-Univ. of Geneva Project
GEO Bon (Biodiversity Observation Network)
AIP Projects
Harvest lessons from community experience
Identify problems with GCI that need to addressed
Build recommendations for future community efforts
Share feedback with GEO providers
Continue to update recommendations document