Key Features

Inventories all the metadata of geospatial resources in the geoportal. The geoportal does not create or duplicate these resources but only stores their locations and metadata.

The primary interface for your data producers to publish their resources to the geoportal and for visitors to the geoportal to discover and access those published resources for use in their own projects.

The Geoportal extension helps you maintain the quality, currentness, and availability of resources registered with the geoportal by providing tools to evaluate new entries, control access to metadata and resources, and integrate the geoportal with other enterprise systems.

Integrate the Geoportal with External Websites and Applications

The Geoportal extension supports the following standards to integrate the geoportal with external Websites and applications.

• REST API
• GeoRSS
• KML
• SOAP
• ATOM

Flexible Security

The Geoportal extension supports simple authentication and user authentication with an external Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). LDAP authentication can restrict record-level metadata access to one of the following access control policies.

• Unrestricted: All users can access all approved documents
• Public-Protected: All users can access public documents and only members of a specified group can see protected documents.
• Restricted: All users can access the unrestricted documents but only specified groups can access restricted documents.

Harvest Resources from Existing Geospatial Repositories

The harvesting tool and service retrieves metadata from distributed catalogs and registers them with your geoportal, which makes it much easier to add, manage, and update large amounts of data.

The Geoportal extension includes simple tools to publish resources to the geoportal.

Publishers can:

• directly create metadata in the Web application
• upload their existing metadata to the geoportal
• cut and paste in the URL of their resource for the geoportal to auto-generate metadata

Support for Common Metadata Profiles

The geoportal supports and provides templates for several common metadata profiles, including

• Dublin Core
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
• International Organization for Standards (ISO) including support for the North American and INSPIRE profiles

Publish Directly from ArcCatalog

The Publish Client allows you to publish their geospatial resources to the geoportal directly from ArcCatalog, simplifying their workflow.

The Geoportal extension provides an easy-to-use interface to help users discover and gain access to datasets, analyses, tools, and Web services to use in their own projects. They can trust that they are using the most current, best quality, resources available.

Simple and Effective Data Search

Search the geoportal by keyword and location. Smart matching-enhanced with a thesaurus service-and smart ranking quickly provides the best possible results.

Enhanced Search Options

The geoportal can focus searches to the geoportal, a registered external portal, or ArcGIS Online.

Streamlined Previewer

You can preview geospatial resources with lightweight streamlined previewer or integrate your own map viewer.

Simplified Data Access and Download

In addition to directly accessing live geospatial resources from the geoportal, use the Clip-Zip-Ship task to focus data downloads to the desired area and features.

• Clip: Draw a polygon, select features, and choose output format.
• Zip: The geoportal packages the selected data into a zip file.
• Ship: The geoportal e-mails the zip file to you.

Search Directly From ArcGIS Applications

The CS-W clients for ArcGIS allow you to search the geoportal from ArcMap and ArcGIS Explorer and immediately access the data.