Improving workflows for information discovery and consumation in EUMETSAT’s User Portal

The Support Service to Big Data Services Engineering and Operations project began in 2025, succeeding a previous framework agreement with EUMETSAT. 52°North secured this new contract as part of a consortium lead by GCI Italia and partnering with B-Open, Ask Visual and con terra. The project aims to advance the established portfolio of data services, featuring innovative data access and discovery capabilities at EUMETSAT. A key task is the maintenance and continued development of the operational version of the EUMETSAT Data Store, a scalable and extensible architecture for providing online access to EUMETSAT’s products. In addition, other components play an important role, e.g., the EUMETSAT User Portal which is a central information discovery component. The consortium is also responsible for the maintenance and operation of these components. con terra and 52°North provide third-level support for specific architectural aspects.

The consortium continued its efforts on EUMETSAT’s User Portal. In 2025, 52°North focused on both the content management (e.g., development of a user-configurable dynamic dashboard as a landing page and introduction of additional content types) and user management. The User Portal is a complex system that involves an Angular user interface, Strapi as a headless content management system and several other backend components for content discovery and integration of existing EUMETSAT services, such as EUMETCast. Sophisticated functionality was implemented to support EUMETSAT user service staff in executing workflows and processes related to license management, EUMETCast product delivery, and service notifications.

In addition to the User Portal development, our team worked on operational and maintenance tasks. The evolution of existing services, such as the EUMETSAT Data Store, played a central role in this work.