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Guidance for Community Portal Development and GCI Utilization

This paper provides guidance for developers of community portals, demonstrating the benefits of utilizing the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) and instructing on its use. It aims to maximize the benefits of GCI and promote community contributions to the system of systems.

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Guidance for Community Portal Development and GCI Utilization

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  1. GEOSS Community Portal RecommendationsAIP-7 Results Session, GEO Plenary XINovember 12, 2014Ken McDonald/NOAA(kenneth.mcdonald@noaa.gov)

  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 Community Portals GEOSS Link from GEOSS Portal Community View of GEOSS Resources Community Infrastructure Community Catalogue Helper Applications Community Broker GCI Access to Community Infrastructure 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

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