GCI Overview

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GCI Overview Demo

• Yonsook Enloe, NASA
• Ken McDonald, NOAA
• May 12, 2009

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GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI)

• Provides core capabilities that allow GEO
  member-nominated systems, data and products to be
  discovered, understood, and accessed by users and
  a variety of decision-support applications
• The GCI includes several core information
  registries, a common search facility known as
  Clearinghouse, and GEO Web Portals that provide
  a user interface to search and access all GEOSS
  resources.
• An Initial Operating Capability (IOC) was
  declared in July 2008 for the GCI.
• IOC Task Force was convened to assess and
  formalize the requirements of the GCI and to make
  recommendations to the Executive Committee
  regarding operational and administrative issues
  related to a sustainable GCI.

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GCI operational interaction diagram
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Component Resource Types Registered in CSR

• Majority of offered Components are really
  websites
• A growing minority are exposing registered Web
  services

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What/Who is GEOSS For? (from D Nebert)

• The current pattern of registration of Component
  Systems and Services suggests still early stages
  of an organized system-of-systems construct
• Organizations appear to view GEOSS primarily as
  an advertising medium to other organizations --
  a list, register, means to be counted present
• The current style of resource (i.e. websites and
  portals) that is registered is more amenable to
  casual users (Barbs mother) than the envisioned
  solution-space.
• If GEOSS is
• primarily viewed as a directory service, then we
  have reached that goal
• expected to rapidly enable decision-support
  solutions, there is a way to go
• expected to answer EO questions directly, much
  more work and design is needed

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Using the GCI

• WGISS agencies have vast data and services that
  are available to international users
• How does the user discover the resources?
• How does the user search for specific data?
• How does the user visualize access the data?
• Current GCI can support selective decision
  support systems and EO science application
  users if you know what is behind the curtain
  see the canned AIP demos from last weeks GEO ADC
  meeting
• But what about everyone else?

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