1. © NERC All rights reserved Work Package 8 – Web Services and Technology Jonathan Lowndes jplo@bgs.ac.uk

2. © NERC All rights reserved Web Services and Technology. Objective: To develop the portal and web services for the discovery, view and download of products and data. Main tasks: Improve geology portal (harmonisation with other portals) Enhance delivery of map and information services. Work Package 8

3. © NERC All rights reserved Data Products (Maps) Metadata Catalogues Portals INSPIRE Services DiscoveryViewDownload Other Portal Other Interface

4. © NERC All rights reserved Current Status Geology Portal One Geology Simple map interface providing access to current map services. Map services also delivered to One Geology.

5. © NERC All rights reserved Solutions Originally looked at UK government system built around CKAN. Discounted due to complications with installation. New portal developed with GeoNetwork Catalogue application to manage spatially referenced resources Open source software and standards http://www.osgeo.org/ http://geonetwork-opensource.org/

6. © NERC All rights reserved Portal design - Catalogue

7. © NERC All rights reserved Portal design - Maps

8. © NERC All rights reserved Portal design - Information

9. © NERC All rights reserved How it works System ingests the WMS services hosted by partners. Generates images, extracts metadata and provides an interface to the service. Can include many types of data service. Provides administrative functionality to manage the catalogue

10. © NERC All rights reserved Next Steps TaskDelivery Portal released for initial feedbackNow Update portal and releaseOctober 2014 Continue development of portal based on feedback and user requirements Ongoing Work with WP leaders to improve existing map services and incorporate new services and data. Downloads? Ongoing Participate in technical working group developing a single sign- on procedure. 2014 Continue to serve existing portals: One Geology. Geo-Seas. Ongoing