1. Improve the WIS Service
The 1st GISC Seoul International WIS Workshop
Jeju KAL Hotel, Rep. of KOREA, 6~9 Nov. 2012
Approaches to
Improve the WIS Service
Sunghoi HUH
Korea Meteorological Administration
Republic of KOREA

2. Contents
Clients’ Aspect
Search Engines
Summary

3. Clients of WIS Decision maker Site operator Model operator
Benefits more than just for WMO programmes with common global information system, based on international industry standards by accessing data with DAR (discovery, access, and retrieval)
- Weather(WWIS, space weather, forecasting, )
- Observation(synop, marine, aviation, radar, satellite,)
- Climate(scenario,), Atmospheric data(ozone,)
- Hydrometeorology(snow melt, ice floe,), Arctic data,
- Greenhouse gas, Agriculture, Drought, Early warning,…
Decision maker
Site operator
Model operator
Weather forecaster
Research group
Public, …

4. What service they want ? (1)
Statistics
Current Weather
Satellite, rada img
Weather chart
Early warning
Weather forecasing
Weekly weather
Monthly weather
Monthly weather(3M)
Climate forecast
Weather index
Webportal (
FTP
(metsky.kma.go.kr)
Off line
Internet search
(Private sector)
By fax from KMA
By SMS from KMA
Information they want
(surveyed by KMA in KOREA, 2011)
Information messenger they are using
(surveyed by KMA in KOREA, 2011)

5. What service they want ? (2)
Good
Nothing better
so so
Nothing worse
Bad
Not easy to find out
Not categorized properly
Lack of functionality(down load, ..)
Lack of quality and preciseness
Lack of data & information
Not easy to understand terminology
Client satisfaction on KMA webportal
(surveyed by KMA in KOREA, 2011)
Clients’ displeasure on KMA webportal
(surveyed by KMA in KOREA, 2011)

6. What service they want ? (2)
Good
Nothing better
so so
Nothing worse
Bad
Not easy to find out
Not categorized properly
Lack of functionality(down load, ..)
Lack of quality and preciseness
Lack of data & information
Not easy to understand terminology
Easily searchable
Easily accessible
Based on internet
With ‘good’ user interface
⇒ Search & UI
Clients’ satisfaction on KMA webportal
(surveyed by KMA in KOREA, 2011)
Clients’ displeasure on KMA webportal
(surveyed by KMA in KOREA, 2011)

7. Search Engine(1) Market share of the ‘search engine’

8. Search Engine(2) Search with a keyword
Google and Yahoo are providing web search based on HTTP protocol, which is GET request
⇒ easy & simple concept by writing down the key word at the URL window
Search with a keyword
ex) Google, ”WMO”
ex) Yahoo, ”WMO”
Search with a multiple keyword using “+”
ex) Google, "WIS GISC”
ex) Yahoo, "WIS GISC”

9. Search Engine(3) Search with a multiple keyword using “-”
: re-search by excluding unwanted element at the result
ex) Google, excluding ”DCPC” at the result of “WIS GISC”
ex) Yahoo, excluding ”DCPC” at the result of “WIS GISC”
They are providing much simpler way ~!

10. Case 1: OpenWIS
Normal Search & Advanced Search & SRU

11. Case 2: Other solutions
GISC Beijing
GISC Tokyo

12. Case 2: Other solutions
GISC Offenbach

13. Summary
WIS is an information system with the ’BIG’ data, and improving ’user accessibility & interface’ for DAR(Discovery, Access, and Retrieval) should be a ’BIG’ issue
It may need to investigate the various functionalities of ’top ranked’ search engines just to make sure the quality service of WIS