1. GEOSS Community Portal Recommendations AIP-7 Results Session, GEO Plenary XI November 12, Ken McDonald/NOAA

2. Community Portal Paper Activity
Purpose – provide guidance to developers of Community Portals
Work with communities to identify and characterize functions and use cases of community portals
Demonstrate benefits of utilizing GCI
Instruct on its use
Share experience of previous efforts (e.g. AIPs)
Team – voluntary representatives from GCI component developers and interested communities
Good representation from AIP participants
Open invitation to new participants
Goal – maximize benefits of GCI and promote community contributions to system of systems

3. Paper Objectives/Contents
Dual Purpose/Audience
Outreach – Communities at large
Describe GCI and general capabilities
Instruction – Community system implementers
Tutorials, examples, best practices
Scope of Paper
Originally limited to Community Portals/Clients
Provide instruction and assistance in utilizing the GCI components
Broadened scope to look at range of possible interactions between GCI and Community Infrastructures
Allows GCI to better leverage community capabilities and promotes closer engagement of user communities in sustaining and enhancing GEOSS

4. Community Portal Role in GEOSS
Portals
Link from GEOSS Portal
Community View of
GEOSS Resources
Community
Infrastructure
Community
Catalogue
Helper
Applications
GCI Access to
Community Infrastructure
Community
Broker
Enables Integration of
GEOSS and non-GEOSS
Registered Resources
Community Data, Information, Services and Applications
Register Community Resources as Appropriate

5. Relationship to AIP-7
Draft completed and released to AIP-7 participants for review/comments
Outreach sections nearing completion
Instruction sections need work
Best practices to come with GCI utilization
Recommendations document provides mechanism to share experience
AIP efforts described in “Examples” section
Specific AIP experience in leveraging GCI capabilities to be captured in “Recommendations”
Contributions from AIP participants is essential
Document current implementation experience
Guide development of community components and future AIPs
Provide feedback to GCI implementers/operators