1. Towards a Renewed GEOSS Work Programme Symposium
2-4 May, Geneva - Switzerland
Joost van Bemmelen / Guido Colangeli
European Space Agency –

2. Overall (long-term)
Objective
To provide all GEOSS Portal Users with easy discovery, access and use functionality to all EO Resources of their Interest
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3. Main Enhancements Restyling of the Graphical User Interface:
Aligned with new GEO Web-site
Simpler (less ‘noisy’)
More Intuitive (‘easier to use’)
In particular:
Improved home page
Improved search
Improved results display
This should all contribute to a Better User Experience

4. Main Enhancements Improved Home Page
‘Guides’ users directly to: <simple search>
New Features:
<Full Screen> option
Collapsible <Menu Bar>
Collapsible <Search Menus>
Collapsible <Results>
Improved <Map Icons’ Use>

5. Main Enhancements Improved search
<simple search>: Invites users to initiate a search immediately via key-words and AOI. Available directly from the GEOSS Portal Home Page.
<multi-criteria search>: Allows users to perform searches with additional search parameters. Available via an expansible menu.
<refined search>: Allows users to refine their searches using results-specific filter parameters to narrow down the number of results. Available when results are displayed.

6. Main Enhancements Results display
<Collapsible results display>: Regards as-text-displayed results – provides users a better map-experience. Available from results window (arrow-up/down).
<Expansible data collections>: More intuitive and direct access to data at granules-level. Available via from collection results (icon).
<Enhanced text-map results linking>: Improved visual inspection of spatial against thematic data. Available from results are displayed.
<More intuitive use of icons>: Easier to find the information the user is looking for. Available when results are displayed.
<Filtering of results>: Relevant to identify trees in the forest of results. Available from initial results.

7. Architectural Considerations
GEOSS-Portal
Architectural Considerations
Possibility to reuse Portal functionality
Component-based
Portlet-oriented
Multi-modality (e.g. use on mobile devices)
Service-busses oriented
As perspective for the future we can see (eventually, a large number of) specialised apps for single use cases that can be plugged into a common ground or base-plate.
(Non-expert) users can get answers to their specific questions from these single purpose apps right away; i.e. they will not have to deal with the details of EO data