1. Providing access to GEOSS Resources The GEOSS Common Infrastructure - GCI Giovanni Rum GEO Secretariat AfriGEOSS Symposium, Victoria Falls April 2016

2. A better title ……… The GCI we want AND The GCI we (currently) have

3. GEO promotes Broad Open Data Policy

4. Private sector providers
The GCI we have
Private sector providers …
GEOSS
Portal
GEO
Website
Discovery and
Access Broker (DAB)
Japan
USA
Canada
South Africa
Australia
Brazil
Germany
Russia
Chile
France
Italy
… more than 100 public providers…
Satellites
Cryosphere
Energy
Disasters
Health
Biodiversity
International Providers
Regional & National Providers
Environment
Climate/Weather
Ocean
Geology/Soil
Spain
New Zealand
Norway
Water
Switzerland
China
Africa 4

5. GCI has doubled its n. of queries over last year
The GCI we have
GEOSS Assets and GCI Usage over time
First half of 2016
More than 3 Million queries
GCI has doubled its n. of queries over last year

6. Implementing new GCI capabilities
GEO started in 2016 a systematic process to implement new GCI capabilities, starting from a major revision of the relevant GCI “User requirements”. A broad review of the document will start next week, after its presentation at the GEO Work Programme Symposium (2-4 May 2016)
Basic requirement: the GCI should allow actual access to free and open resources
User needs grouped in
Structuring user access: from customized search to pre-defined sets of resources addressing thematic areas (in principle the GEO SBAs) and geographical areas
Performance parameters of the Portal, such as Multi-criteria search, single sign-on, saving prevoius searches
On-line tools for resources visualization and mash-up

7. GCI User Requirements Functionalities Overview
Functionalities described in the GCI User Requirements Document
Reference to the document
Multi-criteria search: Spatial/temporal/thematic..
4.2.1
Incremental search/filter
4.2.2
Informative and efficient search output
4.2.3
Storing previous searches
4.2.4
RSS Feeds
4.2.5
Data accessibility: format of accessible data
4.3
Single Sign On:
4.4
Data visualization extent bigger
4.5
Data visualization - footprint & summary metadata
Data visualization tools: zoom, pan, info
Mash Ups
4.6.1
Advanced web applications
4.6.2
Data quality & accessibility monitoring tools
4.8
User data request interface
4.9.1
GCI user experience
4.9.2
GCI Statistics requirements
4.10.2
Others…your inputs!

8. The GCI we want FUNCTIONS Structured access Search Discovery
Visualization
Online tools
Easy Access
ACCESSIBLE RESOURCES
Data
Information
Knowledge

9. The GCI we have now FUNCTIONS Structured access Search Discovery
Visualization
Online tools
Easy Access
ACCESSIBLE RESOURCES
Data
Information
Knowledge

10. GEOSS/GCI architectural issues
Regional/subregional GEOSS nodes?
Virtual
Physical
Regional in situ networks
Data to Users vs Users to data

11. GCI Thematic – Geographic Based Portals Light Approach Strategy
Data Providers
Data Providers
Data Providers
Data Providers
Data Providers
GCI/GEODAB
GCI/GEODAB to serve pre-selected data resources matching the spatial area/thematic of the SBA – Geographic based Portal
Establishing pre-authomated
harvesting from GEODAB to Community Portal Interface- leveraging the GEODAB APIs and VIEW functionalities
Secretariat and GEODAB
Community Portal
Interface

12. Thank you! Giovanni Rum: grum@geosec.org
Osamu Ochiai:
Paola De Salvo: