Being a User of the URR
If you are an individual who wants to use the URR to explore the contents and to perform analyses, the View and Analysis menus are the ones you want to use. If you would like to contribute data to the URR, you will have to register and login before you can use the Publish menu to edit existing entries or add new ones. The Login function allows you to register as a user of the URR, which comes with a number of added functions and conveniences not available to anonymous users.

It is strongly recommended to consult the tutorials before starting to publish in the URR. At a minimum, new users need to look at the brief introduction to the URR available as the URR Quicky. This Quicky provides the very basics for users who want to search the URR or start publishing their information, and this introduction is a must-read for those who cannot go through the tutorials in more detail.

Viewing Contents
In the View menu, you can display individual entries in any of the URR forms, generate reports with several entries, and export the result of a search for processing with other programs. The items of the View menu reflect the data model of the URR.

Publishing Contents
The Publish menu provides the forms that allow you to add new entries or to edit existing ones in all seven key relations, the Lexicon, the Links relation, and in auxiliary relations and controlled vocabularies.

Analyzing the Contents
The Analyze menu will provide the function to construct and analyze the networks that connect Earth observations to end users and illustrate the interdependence of applications and user types.

Setting Your Preferences
In the Preferences menu, you will be able to customize the URR to your personal needs and preferences.

The Tutorials
The tutorials will introduce you to the publishing, viewing and analyzing of URR contents. The tutorials for the Publish menu are particularly detailed and will walk you through the various steps of publishing User Types, Applications, Requirements, Research Needs, Technology Links, Lexicon Terms and References. By doing so, the tutorials explain the concepts behind the URR and give guidance on how to describe individual entities and distinguish them from other similar entities.

Feedback
The further development and improvement of the URR depends on input from the users, from you. We have provided a feedback utility, which makes it easy for you to provide your comments and suggestions to us.