Linking Earth Sciences and GEOSS: The role of the GEOSS User Requirement Registry (URR) [1]
Submitted by superadmin on Wed, 2012-02-01 13:05The User Requirement Registry (URR) of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) is being developed as a versatile tool for the publishing of information on User Types, Applications, Observational and Information Requirements, Research Needs, Infrastructure Needs, Technology Needs, and Capacity Building Needs. Links can be described between any of the entries in these tables, in order to capture the inter-dependencies along the value chains from observations through value-adding applications down to the end users. A prototype of the URR was implemented in 2010 and further improved in 2011. In 2012, the finalization of the URR and the integration in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) is planned.
Key Topics
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URR Data Model
- Multiple registries driven by user needs
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Links - capturing interconnectivity
- Links can allow value chains
- Analysis goals for data tracing
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If data is registered with GEOSS, users can find it through this registry
- Connecting data users and providers, even if they are unaware of each others' needs
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End of 2012 target goal for functionality, design, and administration
- Menus, logins, customizing, GUI, gap analysis
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Concept of Operations [6] describes future development path
- Comments/suggestions welcome
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Populating the URR
- Assessment reports
- Open peer contributions
- Harvesting existing registries
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Getting involved with URR
- What do you do? What are your important activities?
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What decision-making are you involved in, and what are the impacts of these decisions?
- Can you measure the impact of these decisions? The impact of different data on these decisions?
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Getting started
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Create login
- Jump right in or read tutorials?
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Publish menu item -> User Types
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Do you fit into one of these types?
- Click on one of them, and you'll have pre-filled in descriptions of your type that you can tweak if needed
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Do you fit into one of these types?
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Application menu item
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Do you fit into one of these types?
- Click on one of them, and you'll have pre-filled in descriptions of your type that you can tweak if needed
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Do you fit into one of these types?
- Etc. for the rest of the options
- Can connect data requirements to people with data via links
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View menu option -> Links
- Pick a Link, click on the blue 'link'
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Click the yellow 'View Relationship' button
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Visual map of the relationships between user type, data, applications, research, infrastructure, etc.
- Drag to move and order nodes
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Visual map of the relationships between user type, data, applications, research, infrastructure, etc.
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Create login
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Current/Future Development
- Level selection, depth, enhanced GUI in the works.
- Namespace formatting, (meta)data review
- Global and local trees for organization based on user expertise