Focus Search results from a Catalog search. The Layer and MXD buttons allow streaming from the portal server, or data can be downloaded. to be published if it does not have complete metadata, creates a file geodatabase at a specified location on the network, also capturing all the layer files and creating a copy of the MXD that references the newly created file geodatabase. “This is our way of overcoming 'C-drive syndrome.’ We find that a lot of data exists only on a particular user’s laptop, so no one else even knows it exists,” said Allen. “Through the MXD Publisher, all the datasets used in the published MXD are copied to the network drive. Data previously available only on their laptop is now also available, with complete metadata, on the network.” The final step in the Barrick workflow is SDE Publisher, another custom NGIS tool, that publishes the file geodatabase on the network to the enterprise geodatabase in ArcGIS Server. Each night a metadata harvester runs and updates the data catalog with the metadata for any new datasets (the data catalog uses the Esri GIS Portal Toolkit [now known as the ArcGIS Server Geoportal extension] for presentation and ArcGIS Server with SQL Server for storage). Dennis Geasan from GIS Technologies in Anchorage, Alaska, was instrumental in setting up “Everything depends on metadata, but no one likes to do metadata.” —Iain Allen the back-end processes. Search results include links to the individual datasets and to the source MXD. The results are presented with selected metadata, and buttons allow users to either stream the dataset or complete MXD directly from the server to their desktop client or download the data directly. FME Server is used for the ETL (extract, transform, and load) function, giving Barrick the ability to deliver search results in any format desired. This is important because Barrick supports two desktop GIS packages. Data Security “People tend to be very protective of their data, so we have two 'data security’ related metadata attributes,” Allen said. One controls metadata visibility, the other controls data Continued on page 22 www.esri.com ArcUser Summer 2010 21