1. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey CWG Workshop December 4, 2007 Geospatial One-Stop Gateway for Discovery and Access Rob Dollison rdollison@usgs.gov

2. What I’m Going to Cover  NSDI Evolving  GOS Portal Enhancements  Example New ‘Service’ - Integration with GOS  How should we measure Agency Participation in GOS?

3. Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures  Application focus  IT standards  Interoperable GIS Portals Clearinghouses  System- oriented  Data focus  Geo- standards  Top down File Transfer  Ad hoc  Data focus  FTP transfer  Bottom up

4. Some Lessons Learned  Metadata is difficult  Difficult to publish  Difficult to be consumed by end users  Not all data is available to users  Not all data is registered  Searching data is not easy  Too many steps to contribute content  Result  GIS Portals aren’t reaching their full potential

5. How should our Metadata evolve? Brief Metadata is Sufficient Verbose Metadata is Desired Limited User Community: GIS Specialist Large User Community: General Users KML, Tagging, Dig, … ISO 19139, FGDC

6. External Drivers: The Internet is Evolving Source: http://gismatters.blogspot.com/

7. Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures  Application focus  IT standards  Interoperable GIS Portals Clearinghouses  System- oriented  Data focus  Geo- standards  Top down File Transfer  Ad hoc  Data focus  FTP transfer  Bottom up Services Architecture  Service Oriented  Focus on Content  Integration in Business Process

8. IBM WebSphere Portal Architecture Metadata Catalog MetadataHarvester Catalog Service GIS Portal Toolkit Publish Search Map Viewer Apps Z39.50 ESRI-Google Spatial Extender Google Search Appliance ArcIMS CS-W OAI-PMH WAF / XML Single Sign-on and Personalization Other JSR-168 Portlets WMS CS-W Z39.50 Google http WMC WFS/GML WCS ArcIMS FGDC ISO Open LS Gazetteer Open LS Gazetteer OAI Natural Language Search COTS & Standards Based JSR-168 ( Programmatic Connection ) Our ‘National Catalog’

9. Current Status Over 150,000 Total Records Over 2,500 in Marketplace Over 60,000 Visits/Mo. 55% Fed – 45% NonFed

10. What’s New  New Search Interface  Search Results Visualization  Data set footprints now show in map  New Content Type Icons  View results as icons  Download search results to Excel  Search in the Marketplace  View Map Services on a Globe  Customer Satisfaction Survey

11. New Search Interface  Map more closely tied to search  Uses international place gazetteer  Search the entire database or just the Marketplace

12. Search Results Visualization Data set footprints show in map List results are linked to map footprints to allow easy visualization of the coverage area of each dataset.

13. Search by Publisher

14. New Content Type Icons IconMeaning Live Data and Maps Downloadable Data Offline Data Documents Applications Clearinghouses Geographic Activity – Data Requests Geographic Activity – Planned Acquisitions Geographic Activity – Unspecified Geographic Services

15. Access Functions – Context Menu  Access the function menu by putting your mouse cursor over the data content icon.

16. View Results as Icons

17. Download Search Results to Excel

18. View Web Map Services on a Globe

19. New Marketplace Interface  Text and Location Search  Study Area Footprints Shown in Map  Similar Functionality to Search Interface

20. Example New Service from FGDC Coming soon in 2008  Is this map service working?  How Responsive is it? A New Symbol next to ‘Live’ Map Services Linked to a detailed report….

21.  Report Information:  GOS Registration Information  Health Test Results  Reliability Rating  Responsiveness Rating  Potential Service Issues  Recommendations WMS Detailed Report from FGDC

22. Measuring Agency Participation  How should we measure participation?  Encourage progress?  Proposed –  Q2 and Q4 OMB EGov Milestones  Published our new metadata  Published our new data plans  Reviewed and updated our A-16 Data Communities (Links Working)  Registered Map Services and Applications?  Supporting data from the portal (standard form?)  FGDC Annual report used to discuss other participation – establishing web services etc…