Esri Geoportal Server is a free, open source product that enables discovery and use of geospatial resources including datasets, rasters, and Web services. It helps organizations manage and publish metadata for their geospatial resources to let users discover and connect to those resources. The Geoportal Server supports standards-based clearinghouse and metadata discovery applications.

With Esri Geoportal Server, you can

Reduce Time and Redundancy

of data production by connecting geospatial data and service producers with consumers.

Maintain Data Integrity

by allowing organizations to easily share the authoritative version of data among its users.

Enable Easy Search and Discovery

of existing geospatial data and services by allowing users to create and manage descriptions of their geospatial resources and supporting easy-to-use, sophisticated, data discovery technologies.

Esri Geoportal Server

was released under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows developers to freely customize and redistribute the software.

Data Cataloging

Geoportal inventories all the metadata of the registered geospatial resources in a geoportal catalog service, which is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant CS-W 2.0.2 service.

Geoportal Administration

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

Simple Integration

Geoportals support REST, GeoRSS, KML, SOAP, and ATOM to simplify its integration with external Web sites and applications.

Flexible Security

Geoportals support simple authentication or user authentication, with an external Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), for access and security. LDAP authentication allows you to designate record-level metadata access as unrestricted, public-protected, or restricted.

Server-side Synchronization

Geoportals can automatically monitor registered resources and synchronize any changes to the catalog service.

Data Publishing

Data producers publish their resources to the geoportal by registering the resource's metadata with the geoportal's catalog service; supported resources include datasets, analyses, tools, and Web services. Geoportals include simple tools for generating and registering metadata. Publishers can directly create metadata in the Web application, upload their existing metadata to the geoportal, or allow the geoportal to autogenerate metadata.

Support for Common Metadata Profiles

Geoportals support and provide templates for several common metadata profiles, including

  • Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO) including support for the North American and Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) profiles
  • Dublin Core

Publish Directly from ArcCatalog

The Publish Client allows data publishers to register geospatial resources directly from ArcCatalog, simplifying their workflow.

Data Discovery

Geoportals provide an easy-to-use interface for users to discover and access resources registered with the geoportal 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

Search geoportals by keyword and location; smart matching—enhanced by the ontology service—and smart ranking quickly provide the best possible results.

Federated Searching

Search multiple types of search providers, including standards-based XS-W systems, Web 2.0 (OpenSearch) systems, content management systems (CMS), and the document management systems (DMS).

Streamlined Previewer

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

Simplified Access to Web Services

Geoportals provide direct access to live Web services for previewing and using in your maps and projects.

Efficient Data Download

The Clip-Zip-Ship task optimizes data downloads by allowing you to designate your area-of-interest in the dataset, which the geoportal extracts, packages into a Zip file, and e-mails directly to your inbox.

Search Directly from ArcGIS Applications

The CS-W lients for ArcGIS allow you to search, access, and use geospatial data and services in a geoportal directly from ArcMap and ArcGIS Explorer.

What's Included

Software

System Requirements

System requirements for Esri Geoportal Server are based on your product version and platform configuration.
Please see the latest installation requirements in the Geoportal Server Web help.