Geospatial OneStop Gateway for Discovery and Access FGDC

Geospatial One-Stop Gateway for Discovery and Access FGDC Coordination Group Update November 6, 2007 U. S. Department of the Interior U. S. Geological Survey Rob Dollison rdollison@usgs. gov

FY 2007 Activities § § § Version 2. 1 Enhancements Release Version 2. 2 Enhancement Design and Testing New Staff to Support Stewards New Community Content Training Packages Presentations and outreach

GOS Catalog’s Coverage – Our National Metadata ‘Surface’

GOS 2. 1 Spatial Ranking § § Includes first iteration of Spatial Ranking Make spatial searches return local results before global results Based on USGS-developed algorithm Looks for how well the search extent matches the footprint of the metadata

GOS 2. 1 Spatial Ranking Before After

Access Metadata from Viewer § Access Service Metadata for services added from the search results page

Provide More Feedback § Harvesting Report e-mail § subscribe/unsubscribe § Link to harvesting report on portal § Marketplace Notification § Notify about old/stale content

New Community Content

GOS 2. 2 Enhancements (Nov 2007) § Publish content to the web § Search § Add options to advanced search § Marketplace – filter by data type § Map Service Checker (slight delay) § Globe Map Viewer Enhancements

Publishing Content to the Web

Brief Demo or Concept Slides

CWG Issues § OMB – Measures of Agency Participation § § A-16 Stewardship Roles (Geo. Lo. B) § Are your mapping services published? § What would you like us to feature on GOS? § Publishing § Plans to Marketplace § Community Stewardship Input to Design Team