1. PO.DAAC Web Portal Phase 2: Enhancements Rosanna Sumagaysay-Aouda Sandra Cosic May 23, 2012

2. Agenda Goals Feedback and Recommendation Summary UWG PO.DAAC Team (internal) EOSDIS requirements (tbd) Enhancements -> Requirements PO.DAAC Web Portal V2 Overview of proposed changes design ideas functionalities

3. Goals Revisit the design and usability of the current Web Portal Feedbacks from UWG and PO.DAAC Team What’s missing? What’s not useful? What doesn’t look good? What should be improved? Are you able to find the data and its information pretty easily? Can you get the data easily? Identify Enhancements -> Formalize Requirements Topics Owners Finalize Requirements, Prioritize, Plan and Schedule! Design Improvements Data Discovery/Browse Datasets Data Access, Tools & Services User Services Search Engine Optimization New Ideas Content Manager Drupal Developer Data Engineers Artist

4. FEEDBACK PLEASE

5. UWG Feedback Summary Action #1 (LIKES) SUMMARY 6 Categories is a good starting point Well organized Nice pretty layout Easy to navigate Easy to find data Animation of the month Information Tab contains all information needed for dataset. Speed of site is quick Dataset Information Layout Orange Tables pull-downs are helpful Topics and headings in pull-downs are comprehensive Search this site works well. Good indexing. Action #1 Please review the new web portal and provide your general thoughts about the layout, content and usefulness of the portal. Action #1 (DISLIKES) SUMMARY Front page looks busy Maybe confusing for first time users. Too many Block frames. Too many header banners. 3 separate search areas User needs to be knowledgeable of exact key word to enter in Search Field in order to get many matches. Is the Right column needed? Put below. Overwhelm users with too many returned datasets. 2 places to locate other data centers and communities Data Discovery vs Dataset Discovery (what's the difference?) Radar under Parameter.. But it's not an ocean parameter but a sensor Fix Broken links in Pages. 'Ocean Optics' has MODIS SST, and Chlorophyl A Sea Surface Topography' were GDR contains SSH, Significat Wave height Soils' may be soil mosture or land water Confused over 'Click' or wait for a 'Hover'.. For FACET vs Top Navigation Orange pop down menu is persistent in Firefox (does not go away) got annoying. But Safari worked just fine. At the Top navigation NASA Earth Data Navigation -> Data Discovery -> Real-time.. PO.DAAC link doesn't seem relevent, unlike LANCE. Type-o http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanSurfaceTopography/OSTM-JASON2, launched June 20, 2008 and began data collection on July 12, 1008. Missing link in http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceTemperature (For details about the layering of the top 10m of the ocean click here). Action #1 (RECOMMENDATIONS) SUMMARY Level 1 data type should be for experts and L2 and L3 are usable by wider audience. No coherent order Don't mix expert level data and general user data. Different Level of datasets listing should be carefully partitioned using separate tabs. Pretty interface but doesn't make access to data any easier than FTP. Make it simpler (easy to navigate) and less pretty. Most important pages: Download Data, Description of Data and Projects. Make Navigation Bar selection more prominent than 'Browse Datasets' Include Global Dataset in Spatial coverage list. Top Navigation Bar topics should be links and not animated drop down menu. (ie. Dataset discovery, data access, measurements..) Action #1 Please review the new web portal and provide your general thoughts about the layout, content and usefulness of the portal.

6. UWG Feedback Summary Action #2 Please review the Mission and Measurement Pages. 1. Are they useful? Complete? 2. Is there additional information that should be added? Action #2 (DISLIKES) SUMMARY Ocean currents & circulation shows no current mission. Altimeter missions are still arguably ocean circulation missions as well as SST. Missions Met-OP and GHRSST under NASA/PODAAC? Not expecting this. Some mission descriptions are very long (AVHRR) Other mission pages have little to no data or ancillary information Aqua limited set of information. Does not note failure of AMSR-E OSTM missing link from http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanSurfaceTopography/OSTM-JASON2 … ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/ostm/preview/L2/docs/ostm_cyclelist.txt Action #2 (LIKES) SUMMARY Easy to Navigate Useful and finds list complete Some mission pages are complete with nice data links OSTM is comprehensive Likes how sea-ice has related links. Action #2 (RECOMMENDATIONS) SUMMARY What is the concept of Mission (better definition) is GHRSST a mission or measurement Should ADEOS-II be SeaWinds Why are there Aqua, Terra, and MODIS under missions. Would like to see related missions section (NSCAT shows ASCAT, QuikSCAT etc..) Templates in mission and measurements need to be consistent/uniformed Automatically include announcements from other feeds (ie. OSTST). Eg. Jason 1's safe hold information. Related links should link back to mission descriptions. Mission link at top navigation should go to a page similar to measurements that summarizes the options Ocean wind, QuikSCAT mission needs to be brought up to date Action #2 Please review the Mission/Measurement Pages. 1. Are they useful? Complete? 2. Is there additional information that should be added?

7. UWG Feedback Summary Action #3 (DISLIKES) SUMMARY Forum is not useful Not clear if what was clicked was either private or public. Color scheme may indicate not active for access. Low number of posts indicates not busy place. Forum watch post cannot click on icon. Is this suppose to send email to user if they want to see the posts from this forum Action #3 Please review the Forums. 1. Are they useful? 2. How could they be improved upon? Action #3 (LIKES) SUMMARY Likes the concept of FORUM. NO real posts to determine if forum is useful though. Likes the forum idea Action #3 (RECOMMENDATIONS) SUMMARY Add OST forum Request for comments on potentional new instruments (SWOT. Scatterometer) Add PDFs, presentations at science team meetings. List of related poublications. Post answers to recent help desk questions. Accesing processing problems. Link Forum topics from mission pages Highlight forum like the rest. Currently only accessible once at front page. Successful forums need a critical mass. Forum can be excellent excellent and would add value to the portal by alerting PO-DAAC to issues (e.g. of latency in real-time data sets) and exchanging code and best practice between users external to PO-DAAC. Action #3 Please review the Forums. 1. Are they useful? 2. How could they be improved upon?

8. UWG Feedback Summary Action #4 From the home page, use the “Browse Dataset” section to locate two or more datasets familiar to you. Please Answer the following questions: 1. Were you able to easily navigate to the relevant Dataset Information pages? If not, what problems did you experience? 2. Comment on the usability of the navigation options (facets)? 3. Did the Information Tab contain all the information you require to utilize the dataset? 4. Were you able to easily access the data? Action #4 (DISLIKES) SUMMARY Information tab did not provide all the info required to utilize dataset. Would like to see a table of variables (possibly in the data access location). No Obvoius README me file to read for level of Directories in access. Directory/filenames confusing. Search for water vapor and dataset discovery returned maps of water vapor concentration from radiometer data. This is an expert product and general user might be misled by the way it's described in the browse section. Asked grad student to download L3.5 CCMP wind product toook a long time.. Due to directory structure… didn't know can drag folder to desktop to get data. README file should've included this infomration in the main directory. Search for GRACE data and returned OSCAR surface currents. First thing to return should be GRACE GSM products. Platform search useless if primary products of search is returned in a lower order. Search area (GRACE CSR, GRACE GFZ) returned 0 datasets. Selecting a dataset (GRACE Monthly Geopotential Spherical Harmonic Coefficients GFZ Release 4.0 Unconstrained (GSM)) missing values for variables. Daily file labeling for OSCAR will need to be more obvious to users. OSCAR handbook is linked at the bottom… best to link at front and center since everything is explained at length in the handbook Not sure how useful table view is. Was expecting the Browse Dataset buttons to take user to the Dataset Discovery tool Journal reference is not how to cite use of these data. A citation note that unambiguously indicated this dataset in the catalog – for experimental reproducibility – would be nice. Looking for REMSS.. Quoted latency is 24 hours but no data since Feb 24, 2012 But, in the latency “historical data” the “sort by” stop date returns no datasets. Perhaps the database is not actually configured to support this. Looking under parameter | sea surface topography | then searching for keyword “Jason-2” I get nothing. All Datasets›Latency: HISTORICAL choosing sort Stop date. Page 1 returned no datasets. Page 2 and on returned datasets. Enter Dataset Keyword in already selected facets… but entering a keyword here searches the entire DB. Should only be within the datasets returned in the list. Action #4 (LIKES) SUMMARY Dataset Discovery.. Navigation easy. Facets work well Accessed data via FTP Like the Navigation Space and Time and Sensor Information tab contained all information required to utilize the dataset Was able to access the data (single files though) but did not try wget or mass access protocol. Likes the browse dataset panel, sort functionality, contact a data engineer, Action #4 (RECOMMENDATIONS) SUMMARY Search forum need basic search criteria ex: list posts by certain post date, topic, or author Would like to elimnate datasets that do not span desured time range. Global coverage should be included in regional dataset selections. Need README file in the main directory of the dataset. Currently only available in DOCS directory. List of results.. Previous / Next should also be at the bottom of the page. Or increase the number of datasets returned for each page. Each mission page helpful to list the most commonly-downloaded datasets separately.. Rather than a link to data search return for Browse Datasets for GRACE data. Allow user to insert the start/end times, and collect all data of ONE filetype in between, as a zipped file. Provide README files describing the file name convention of dataset. Example: GSM- 2_2008275-2008306_0030_EIGEN_GM60_0004.dif” and couldn’t immediately tell what dates that represented (esp. because of the use of DOY) Overall, while your site presumably includes a whole lot of data, I don’t find it well organized. I keep imagining some poor new grad student getting told by his professor, “Go get the T/P data over the Atlantic from 1990-1992 so we can test this,” and getting to the site and being totally confused about what data he was actually supposed to download. The site looks pretty, but I’m sorry, it’s just not very effective at organizing and explaining data sets. Provide links to handbook from README files in the FTP site. User SCENARIO. 1) see what data is available, 2) see details on what to choose, 3) pick a time and region to download, 4) make sure I understand what I’m getting, and as a bonus 5) quickly preview the data and pick out a specific time and region (versus a big file with global data or a year’s worth of data, etc). Action #4 From the home page, use the “Browse Dataset” section to locate two or more datasets familiar to you. Please Answer the following questions: 1. Were you able to easily navigate to the relevant Dataset Information pages? If not, what problems did you experience? 2. Comment on the usability of the navigation options (facets)? 3. Did the Information Tab contain all the information you require to utilize the dataset? 4. Were you able to easily access the data?

9. UWG Recommendation (Data Organization on new Web-Portal) Make facetted filters functionality more evident: “filter dataset list” color coated Amazon (orange text for categories) E-bay (roll over mouse gives background shade on selection) tutorial (learn more) button for novice Expand facetted filters functionality allow “>”, “<“, range searches for temporal/spatial searches allow multiple selection Provide metrics on usage to justify reduction of similar products GHRSST L4 Improve sort accuracy by Popularity does not align with UWG’s expected results for scientific discovery. by Spatial/Temporal, spatial resolution -> grid spacing. by Stop Date return the most recent first. (advantage for Nowcast/Forecast users) by Latency (adv. To Nowcast/Forecast users) Make dataset comparison table functionality more evident.

10. UWG Recommendation (Web Portal) Maintain consistency and accuracy on data information pages. Fix broken links Check accuracy of “known issues” (eg. Altimetry) Include consistent description for each dataset orbit info, known issues Inter-DAAC inter-operability NSIDC (cryosphere DAAC) -> PODAAC sea-ice portal OBPG (ocean color DAAC) -> PO.DAAC ocean color portal Forum Post past and new user inquiries along with correspondence eg. OBPG Organize by topics Link FROM known issues pages TO Forum

11. Highlights Data Discovery / Browse Datasets  Improve grouping of datasets  Improve sorting accuracy  Improve ‘keyword’ search For further search, search only in dataset list results  Search by > or < or range for temporal/spatial searches  Select multiple datasets for comparison  Include Prev/Next buttons at the bottom of page.  Include global coverage datasets in regional dataset search results  Streamline datasets presentation pages table view vs. listing use partitions to indicate different processing levels  Expand/Improve dataset information page related info ocean stories, highlights, announcements links to forum topics from known issues section Add supported Tools and Services in data access tab (HiTide, SOTO, THREDDS, LAS)  Rate/Comment on dataset Design Improvements  Simplify header banners  Simplify Layout (less redundancy, less block frames)  Improve presentation of dataset faceted search menu  Streamline Mission/Measurement Pages commonly-downloaded dataset Inter-DAAC inter-operability announcement feeds from related projects  Streamline Dataset Information Pages  Improve ‘Mission’ tab sub-menu NASA vs. nonNASA vs. Projects  Improve Forum Home page layout  Modernize PO.DAAC branding (logo, motto)  Add social media links (share and rate)  Systems Alerts/Notifications (blue) Indicates PO.DAAC feedback

12. Highlights Data Access, Tools and Services  Standardize Header and Footer  Metrics (page/event tagging if possible)  Granule Tab User Services  Help Desk / Feedback  Forums Post past and future help desk correspondence  FAQ  Video Tutorials  Metrics and Reporting  Publication / Citation Search Engine Optimization  Wiki Pages  Link to PO.DAAC from other sites  Meta Tags in Web Pages New Ideas  Feature Rotator on Home Page  Social Media Widgets  RSS Feeds (Federated content)  Slider Viewer access to Tools and Services/Data Access (blue) Indicates PO.DAAC feedback Misc  README files !!!  FTP top level of data with info on directory structure, filename convention  Include links to related handbooks (other documeations

13. Enhancements -> Requirements (What’s next? … Where do we go from here?..) Next steps: Evaluate, refine and prioritize the requirements Collect more feedback from the internal team Derive and finalize the Detailed Requirements Review the level of effort, assignments, estimates Create plan/schedule for implementation

14. PO.DAAC Web Portal – Phase 2 High Level Requirements Overview Revisit the design and usability of the current web portal What’s missing? What is not useful? What doesn't look good? What should be improved? How to improve the Search engine ratings? Streamline the Data Discovery process based on the UWG feedback and recommendation Improve data presentation and user interfaces UWG, PODAAC & EOSDIS recommendation Improve user community support Be #1 on the Search engine ranking for ocean data Design Guidelines Keep in mind the main purpose of the site and the targeted audience Web portal design approach Key spectators need Focus on key elements Data Discovery/Browse Datasets/Data Access/Tools&Services Ocean Events Stories, Dataset Highlights, Missions/Measurements Usability Data Presentation, User Interfaces User Interaction News/Notification/Social Media Feedback/HelpDesk/Forum

15. Proposed Changes for the Web Portal Phase 2 Design Improvements New Logo, Motto, Banner, etc Home Page Layout Changes Feature Rotator, Content Presentation, etc. Dataset Faceted Search Menu Enhancements Dataset Page Layout Forum Home Page Layout Add Social Media Links (Connect/Share/Follow/Rate) Functionality Improvements Data Discovery: Streamline the faceted search interface Streamline the dataset presentation pages (table view vs. listing, etc) Be able to compare/rate/comment on datasets Tie in the datasets to related info (ocean events stories, dataset highlights, tools & services) Data Access, Tools & Services Related Portal updates Granule tab SOTO Community (USO) Helpdesk/Forums/Feedback Metrics and Reporting User Registration / SSO support Search Engine Ratings Updates to the Wiki pages, and add links to PODAAC from other sites New Workflows New Functionality RSS Feeds (Federated Content)

16. Design Improvements Ideas Feature Rotator: for News about the Dataset Highlights/Ocean Stories/Images/Animations/Tools Home Page Condensed Content Presentation Most viewed What are people interested in? Top RatedQuick Links New Logo (tbd) New Motto (tbd) Portlets for Ocean related info from other DAACs Add new things to raise up our ranking on search sites

17. State of the Ocean (SOTO)

18. DATASET HIGHLIGHTS Title: 11.11.11 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod >> Title 11.11.11 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod >> Title 11.11.11 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod >> Title 11.11.11 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod >> Title 11.11.11 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod >> Title 11.11.11 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod >> STORIES IMAGES ANIMATION MORE >> 11.11.11 | Location Title - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do >> 11.11.11 | Location Title - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do >> 11.11.11 | Location Title - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do >> 11.11.11 | Location Title - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do >> ANNOUNCEMENTS EVENTS Get PO.DAAC Updates by Email MORE >> About Contact Citing Data Privacy Site Map

19. Subscribe EmailSharePrint Add to all pages CoverFlow type of view for the Data Tools & Prototypes Catalog (or for a Visual browse of the Dataset listing page?) http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/data-tools/search-and-order-tools Dataset Metadata Details ---------------- New Ideas for presenting content

20. State of the Ocean (SOTO) Portlet for Ocean related info from other DAAC

21. Subscribe EmailSharePrint Add Social Media Links Dataset Metadata Details ---------------- i.e.: Quickly Browse 340 datasets (vs. paging) filtered search Start New SEARCH

22. Subscribe EmailSharePrint i.e.: Quickly Browse 340 datasets (vs. paging) filtered search Start New SEARCH