1. Brokering Framework Working Group
Jay Pearlman
Wim Hugo
Stefano Nativi
Michael Diepenbroek

2. Broker
A third-party software component (middleware) connecting users to data providers, to facilitate information sharing.
Promoting global cross-disciplinary interoperability
Not going to focus on the value of brokering software here BUT…
Believe it provides a viable mechanism to inter-connect diverse data providers and consumers to better address issues of global societal concern

3. Generalized Use Cases Authenticate Curate Mediate Cite
Access/ Download
Data/
Services
Analise/
Visualise
“Bind”
“Publish”
Process
Metadata
Discovery
Assess/ Rate
“Find”

4. OpenAIRE

5. EPOS IT-architecture CES Web API Security Gateway System
GUI Client
(semi –secured)
Security Gateway
METADATA
catalogue
Database / Message Broker
Message Logger / replayer
System
Orchestrator
Error Handler
System Usage Statistics Compiler
Connection Manager
Service Connectors
Message Bus / Queue
Metadata Harvester
Dataset Connectors
Service (ICS-D)
Service (TCS)
Service API
Dataset
Alternate Provider
Dataset API (TCS)
CES

6. Brokers in use ESRI Geoportal Geospatial data
Discovery
Access
Semantics
ESRI Geoportal Geospatial data
NSIDC DAB Arctic Environment
NOAA ERDAP Ocean Data
GEOSS DAB Earth Data and Info
IBS Message Broker Customer Relations Management
IBM Web Sphere Interconnected Business Processes …

7. Existing Work ESSI lab – GI-Cat (GEOSS) PANGAEA - panFMP OpenAIRE
DataONE
OOI
EarthCube – BCUBE
ERDAP …

8. Operation Factors Minimum required market size – tipping point
Community participation
Breadth of applicability
Technology maturity
Tolerance for defects
Open source leveraging
Supports building of Trust
Other?

9. Mission Brokering & Mediation
Community consensus on the way in which mediation and brokering components are described, discovered, and invoked
Use case “Brokering Framework” – demonstrating the value by developing, testing, and commissioning a reference implementation of a mediation registry
Introduction of a testbed

10. Work Program Task or Deliverable RDA Plenary Expected Timelines
Use cases and classification of brokering and mediation components 10
6 months
Develop content and service standards 11
9 months
Create a registry of mediation options
Test environment - initial/third party implementation 12
12 months
Develop protocols for the test environment
Contingency and slippage provision for the above: final delivery
15 months
Governance of registry and test environment
Recommendations and report 13
18 months

11. Survey

12. Use Case Compendium Collection of RDA Use Cases
At this page we collect pointers to the use cases of the RDA Working and Interest Groups.
Please send a short note to the groups's mailing list or to if you want to have your use cases registered or want to update the information.
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