The proto-personas were created as part of the development process of the NFDI4Earth OneStop4All portal. Personas can be defined as fictional characters created to represent typical users of a website, portal, service etc and are useful in order to better understand users' needs, experiences, behaviours and goals. The personas cover a diverse range of potential users who vary in needs, age, work experience and educational background. Within the NFDI4Earth, the proto-personas were created based on the experiences of NFDI4Earth partners with the target community according to Norman (2018). They are used to develop the functionalities of the OneStop4All portal, with the aim of making the portal efficient and user friendly for each persona.

This work has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the project NFDI4Earth ( TA2, M2.1, DFG project no.460036893, https://www.nfdi4earth.de/) within the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI, https://www.nfdi.de/)

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