How to populate the GEONETCAB portal ? training session

1. Jean-Christophe DESCONNETS (IRD), Mathieu KAZMIERSKI (IRD)
How to populate the GEONETCAB portal?

2. Expectations
 Discover the main functionalities of the GEONETCAB
Portal
 Adopt the management functionalities of the
GEONETCAB catalogue
 Inventory your own CB resources within the
GEONETCAB Portal
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3. Objectives of this workshop
 Spreading knowledge on CB resources
 Learn how to search a CB through the GEONETCAB
portal
 Learn how to create a CB resource in the
GEONETCAB portal
 Learn how to connect CB resources together in the
GEONETCAB portal
 Discuss options to make EOPOWER and IASON
partners complete the CB inventory, and further on…
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4. Content of this workshop
 Introduction (15 min.)
 Live demonstration of user discovery capabilities (15 min.)
 Hand-on pratice : how to populate the inventory of CB
resource (60 min.)
 Expected improvements and questions (15 min.)
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5. Accessing
Capacity Building
resources
Quicklook to the GEONETCAB portal
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6. Capacity Building resources
 By Capacity Building resource, we mean any element
of interest that can help the development of
knowledge (capacity building) in the field of Earth
Observation.
 This element can be human, organizational, IT-
related, methodological, technical.
 Targeted CB resources are freely accessible or
sponsored by special agreement, depending on the
particular status of the applicant
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7. Geonetcab portal as Resource
facility
 Provide information that helps decision makers,
policy makers, EO professionals and scientists
become more familiar with EO applications and
opportunities.
 Make freely accessible through the resource facility
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8. What is the GEONETCAB portal?
 Overview
The goal of the FP7 GEONETCAB was to let users in
the field of Earth Observation (EO) accessing to
Capacity Building (CB) resources.
It has produced an inventory of the capacity-building
resources available online for the EO domain (about
350 items within 3 years)
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9. GEONETCAB current achievements
 Hierarchy and identification of a Capacity Building resources
typology
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10. GEONETCAB current achievements
 ISO19115 metadata model to
structure the description of a
CB resource
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11. GEONETCAB current achievements
 Web applications to discover,
edit metadata and publish it
including the CB resource
catalog
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12. GEONETCAB current achievements
 Web applications to discover,
edit metadata and publish it
including the CB resource
catalog
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13. GEONETCAB current achievements
 The GEONETCAB resources
are registered in the GEOSS
registry
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14. Benefits for the users?
 Using the portal, a user can:
 Improve his knowledge on existing CB resources
 Easily access to the information
 Browse across linked CB resources
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15. CB resources described
 Organisation
 Institution, person, project or initiatives whose
purpose or object is related to the use of data derived
from the Earth Observation (e.g.: enviroGRIDS FP7,
SANSA, USGS…)
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16.  Marketing Toolkit
 Methodological tool to support the development of
projects based on the use of Earth Observation data (e.g.
Disaster Management Marketing Toolkit)
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CB resources described

17. CB resources described
 EO Product
 Derived data from satellite images (e.g. EUMETSAT
products)
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18. CB resources described
 Software
 Software, libraries, for cataloguing, analyzing,
processing, visualizing, layouting geospatial data (e.g.
Geoserver, Geonetwork, Orfeo Tool Box)
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19. CB resources described
 Training
 Training session or academic courses which provide
technical, methodological, scientific knowledge for Earth
Observation data handling (e.g. this workshop, Bringing
GEOSS services into practice)
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20. CB resources described
 Service (Resource facility):
 On line service with which you can discover, view, access, process earth
observation data (e.g. Map portal of Plzen city)
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21. CB resources described
 Document
 Technical or scientific digital document about the use
of Earth observation data, or tutorials on how to use
related software (e.g. ORFEO Tool Box Software Guide)
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22. CB resources described
 Access Program
 Agreement according to specific conditions for accessing
to Earth Observation images or products derived from
them (e.g. International Charter Space and Major
Disasters)
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23.  Success story
 Reference project or initiative which have used, in a
sustainable way, Capacity Building resources in the field
of Earth Observation (eg: South Africa Spot Multi-license,
GIONET, Geonetcast toolbox)
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CB resources described

24. Searching a CB
resource in the
GEONETCAB
portal
 Scenario 1 : full text research and exploring connected
ressources keywords
 Scenario 2 : spatial filtering on a CB ressource type
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25. Scenario 1
 full text search and exploring connected resources
with keywords
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26. Scenario 2
 Spatial filtering on a CB ressource type:training
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27. Hands-on Practice
: create, edit and
link CB resources
 Edit
 Create
 Link
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28. Edition Workflow
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 6 steps to edit and publish a new CB resource

29. Hands-on practice
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 Hands-on support available :
http://www.mdweb-project.org/eopower/hands-
on/HowToPopulateGeoNetCabPortalV1.pdf
 URL of geonetcab portal (edit module) :
http://geonetcab.mdweb-project.org/geonetcab-
edit/edit/main.jsf?page=edit&lang=en
 A user account (EOPOWER partner received one by mail)
 user account for others (login : geobia ; pwd : geobia)

30. EOPOWER
expected
improvements
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31. - An inventory not enough comprehensive, limited
visibility from others access services, including those of
GEO-GEOSS
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Some limits
- Important work to input the description of
resources and maintain the metadata up to date
?
-Many description are already availables in others
discovery service or web portal without an efficient way
to interconnect

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Technical framework for Resource facility
Interconnect GEONetCab portal with partner’s CB
databases

33. Toward a
Capacity Building
System of
Systems
How to both achieve a better mobilization
of CB resources and avoid replication of
efforts ?
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Objectives
Many projects collect information about Capacity Building
resources delivered in a form of database, structured according
specific schemas and specific web interface
Provide interoperability between the different CB Systems
 Avoid replication of efforts
 Achieve better mobilization of resources
 Propose a large view of available material to the
decision makers, policy makers and EO professional

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A Capacity Building System of
systems
As the GEO System of systems, an approach which :
 Keep the different system autonomous
 Based on specialized components to take care of all
mediation and harmonization tasks to connect the
systems
 Minimize the impact on the project
 Reuse the outcomes of past project to provide the key
components

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Brokered Architecture
Allows the interoperability between differents systems,
keeping the local system autonomous

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Toward Implementation

38. How to populate the future CB
Systems of Systems ?
providers
input
providers
providers
providers
input
input
input

39. Your feedback ?
 Desconnets J.C. : jean-christophe.desconnets@ird.fr
 Kazmierski M. : mathieu.kazmierski@ird.fr
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