Summary and Actions

1
Summary and Actions
Issues identified - Our focus may be too narrow
based on the users we know, while those we do not
know are not 'discovered'. - Users have their own
specific terminology to express their needs. -
AIP licensing may turn away users. - Some data
providers require registration and login. - Time
line for some activities turns out to be too much
delayed leading to users being turned away. -
Games promoting EO need to be web-based for large
communities could be better to work with
existing games to add EO modules. - Users want to
access data, not just get information about data
- meta data is needed but not useful.
2
Summary and Actions
Issues identified - Surveys based on web usage
could provide clues on what EO data and services
are used by who discovery of currently unknown
user groups. - INSPIRE process guarantees wide
support for solutions - do GEO processes involve
stakeholders sufficiently to ensure wide support
for solutions? - User and providers are
increasingly in overlap the concept may need a
revision. Hybrid-user-providers. -
3
Summary and Actions
Questions asked - How could we identify and
engage users we do not know of a priori? - How
could a GEOSS-wide user registration triple down
to individual data providers ? - How should the
GEO processes be modified to guarantee widely
accepted solutions? - Should GEO aim at the basic
underpinning infrastructure and leave some
services to the commercial sector?
4
Summary and Actions
Recommendations agreed upon - Focus more on a
few well planned, organized and followed-up
activities instead of starting too many things
and then having long delays because of a lack of
resources to follow up everything - Thematic
approach for CoPs with multi-CoP participation -
Ensemble approach to user needs and requirements
(crowd sourcing, report analysis, harvesting) -
Learning from social media - Identification of
user groups through analysis of web usage -
diversity of terminology - user needs imply more
than observational requirements.
5
Summary and Actions
Actions to follow up - Write a report for the
GEO Newsletter - Involving CoPs in AIP-4 - Input
for the Work Plan - Workshop report ?