Introduction Geospatial users workflow and needs Problem and research goals Contribution Publication Service: GEOSS Service Factory Prototype assessment in a use case Conclusions 2

Share (publish/provide) Access Visualize Download Process Discover Access Decide Act 3

Geospatial Information Infrastructures (GII) Top-down building methodologies Complex publication mechanism Provokes Lack of participation to Add/ Update online content Scarcity of up-to-date information Underutilized geospatial infrastructures 4

Assisting in content publication and provision Improving availability of online content in GII Improving visibility within GII Availability: existence of content through standard services deployed on GII Visibility: resources are properly registered 5

Proposed solution: Extended GII 6 Initiative to implement Global Earth Observation System of Systems Organize existing systems and content To efficiently work with geospatial resources Rely on existing initiatives and standards INSPIRE as one of the European contributions

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Proposed solution: Extended GII 8

WPS Interface Keywords Md url Publication Profile Transformation Service 9 Existing instances WMSWFSWCSCSWSOS APIs WMSWFSWCSCSWSOS MD Generator Publication Profile Factories ViewDownloadDiscovery content

WPS Interface Transformation Service 10 Existing instances WMSWFSWCSCSWSOS APIs WMSWFSWCSCSWSOS MD Generator Publication Profile Factories ViewDownloadDiscovery Discovery Link

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Lack of available online content Improve content availability Top-down+Bottom-up User participation Standards 12

Scientific Data Processing Sensors Citizens as sensors Web Geospatial Content shpgmlkmlo&m geo tiff

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GII extended with a proposed Publication Service Assists in content provision Mechanisms to chain publication and cataloguing Integrates different content types Hybrid GII building methodology: Top-down + Bottom-up More active participation of users According international standards Hiding complexity to publish content Avoid manual errors and time consuming Opens a new channel for users to contribute massively Increase the usability of GII 16

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