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3. Users Voices … How to Register data Cannot find data! Cannot find data I registered! Please, some ranking mechanism like in Google … Global data not covering small areas … API to access directly data No links to EO news Quality vs Quantity Dead links Comparative maps, comparing environmental phenomena between regions and displaying trends Show data temporal extent How to download? Tons of results; how to refine the query? Faceted search would be of help in easily narrowing down the numbers Do sort results thematically!!! Quality of the metadata Error accessing dataset Process and combine data Use quality information to feed the ranking algorithm Display Portal access statistics and use metrics

4. And the winners are … Categorizing in themes, such as "disasters", or "energy". This is a useless, except for convincing a politician or a manager, without any experience Try not to compete with better (commercial) search engines, such as Google, but team up with them or use their services. Forget the politics, because your end-users are not interested in political justification. Don't let it "explode" as more datasets come in, and nobody is responsible for broken links. Build trust, if a user cannot find what he is looking for 2 or 3 times he will not use the portal anymore. Question from the User Questionnaire: Which feature was the least useful and most difficult to use? Question from the User Questionnaire: What suggestions would you make to improve the Portal?