Overview

The ArcGIS Server Geoportal extension (formerly the GIS Portal Toolkit) allows you to catalog the locations and descriptions of your organization's geospatial resources in a central repository called a geoportal, which you can publish to the Internet or your intranet. Visitors to the geoportal can search and access these resources to use with their products. If you grant them permission, visitors can also register geospatial resources with the geoportal.

Geoportals provide the technology component of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). An SDI is a framework of technologies, policies, and institutional arrangements that together facilitate the creation, maintenance, exchange, and use of geospatial data and related information resources across an information-sharing community.

With the Geoportal extension, you can

• Improve GIS efficiency and effectiveness of geospatial activities.
• Support collaboration and cooperation across departments and organizations, regardless of GIS platform.
• Gain an enterprise-level awareness of disparate geospatial data, Web services, and activities.
• Avoid duplicating geospatial resources and the effort to create them.
• Ensure the use of approved, high-quality datasets.
• Reduce the time it takes to find relevant, usable geospatial resources.

Visit our live user sites to see how organizations have implemented the ArcGIS Server Geoportal extension.