1. GIS Portal Toolkit 9.3
Marten Hogeweg

2. Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures
Services Architecture
Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures
GIS Portals
Service Oriented
Focus on Content
Integration in Business Process
Clearinghouses
Application focus
IT standards
Interoperable
System-oriented
Data focus
Geo-standards
Top down
File Transfer
Ad hoc
Data focus
FTP transfer
Bottom up

3. Services Architecture for SDI
OGC Compliant
Lightweight
Desktop GIS
2-D & 3-D
“Science Viewers”
Use Environment
GIS Portals
Custom Applications
3-D
Base
Map
2-D
OGC
Services
Tracking
GIS Data
Data
Streams
Catalog
Metadata
Geo-
processing
Geospatial Web Services Platform
Data Warehouse
Supporting Services
Authentication
Places
Addresses
Location
Extraction
Development
API
SOAP/REST
Thesaurus
Authentication
Access Control
Thesaurus
Derive elevation
Query National Grid
Derive Elevation Profile
Delineate Watershed Boundary
Avian Flue Cluster Analysis
Earthquake Prediction
Hurricane Path Prediction …
ArcXML, KML
WMS, WFS, WCS OpenLS
REST, SOAP …
CS-W
UDDI
Service Monitoring …
Server Caching
High Performance
Thematic Base Maps
Integrated content …

4. SDI Come in Flavors National SDI Clearinghouses Enterprise SDI
US NSDI, EU INSPIRE, Group on Earth Observation, WALIS SLIP
Federated catalogs with 10,000 to 100,000+ items
Clearinghouses
Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Croatia, Lithuania, …
Often act as focal site for data distribution
Enterprise SDI
USGS, NATO, US EPA, BHP Billiton…
Focus:
Data Collection, Geospatial information products and services, Cataloging and Discovery, Product Generation, Product Delivery
Integrate in Enterprise Service Architectures

5. Some Components of SDI Tasking Production Workflow Program Serve
Discover
Use
Author
Visualization
Production
Workflow
Tasking
Services
Products and Services
Program
Analysis
End
Users
Mission Critical
Applications
Data Collection

6. GIS Portals Enable SDI

7. What is the GIS Portal Toolkit?
Purpose: Enable Discovery and Use of Geospatial Resources
Enables you to build a GIS Portal with the following capabilities:
Searching and viewing metadata
Viewing live map services
Publishing metadata
Storing metadata
Downloading Data
Managing metadata
Harvesting

8. GIS Portal Site Starter Content Management System (3rd Party)
GIS Portal Components
Map Viewer
GIS Portal Site Starter
Content Management System (3rd Party)
Catalog Service
REST API
GeoRSS/KML
ArcMap
Java ADF
ArcGIS Explorer
Harvesting Service

9. What’s New in GPT 9.3 Completely Rewritten and New Architecture
Use of GPT with ArcGIS Server
ADF-based Map Viewer
Harvesting Enhancements
New Security Framework
Expanded Data Download Capabilities
Extensible Metadata Profile Support
OGC CSW Search Task
REST API for Metadata Discovery
Integrate with External Content Management System 9

10. ArcGIS Server-based GIS Portal
ArcGIS Server provides:
Search Map Service
Place Finder Service
Address Finder Service
Projection Service
Data Download Service
Stand-alone Metadata Service provides:
Metadata publishing
OGC CS-W Interface
User Experience:
Updated GUI
Context-sensitive Help 10

11. ADF-based Map Viewer Shared platform across solution products
Highly customizable through ADF template
Interoperability Support
OGC WMS/WCS/WFS
GeoRSS
ArcGIS Server
ArcIMS 11

12. Harvesting Enhancements
Additional OGC CSW Application Profiles
Harvest ArcGIS Server content
Treat harvested metadata as a collection
User-initiated harvest
Harvesting service automates harvesting
Synchronize content 12

13. Publishing Client for ArcCatalog
One-click publishing
Publishes Metadata for ArcCatalog Items
Recurses into workspaces and geodatabases
Written in Python  Extensible

14. Security Framework Authenticate users with LDAP:
Apache Directory Server
Sun Directory Server
Microsoft Active Directory
IBM Tivoli Access Manager
Oracle CoreID
Integration with existing authentication services
ArcCatalog authenticates with LDAP
OR: Simple Configuration with a single authenticated administrator
ArcCatalog
Simple
LDAP
Metadata Service Permissions
GPT Servlet Connector
Authentication Service
Metadata
Service 14

15. Expanded Data Download Capabilities
Based on project experience
Use ArcGIS Server Geoprocessing Task
REST/SOAP Service
Written in Python
Customizable 15

16. Extensible Metadata Profile Support
Support new metadata profiles based on ISO 19139
INSPIRE, North American Profile, ANZLIC, Earth Observation Profile, NATO
Support simple metadata creation process (Dublin Core)
Simplify validation
Extensible Framework for Metadata Standard Support:
Includes: Sections and subsections, Conditional Mandatory Elements, Different input elements, Read-only elements, Default values, Localization, and Namespaces
Publishing Process:
Validation
Transformation 16

17. OGC CSW Search Task Search Task for ArcMap, ArcGIS Explorer and ADF
Search CS-W Catalogs
View Metadata Footprints
Add to Map/Globe
Common Architecture
Common User Experience
Java ADF GUI
ArcMap GUI
ArcGIS Explorer GUI
Search Task
CS-W Client
CS-W Service 17

18. GPT 9.3 – REST API REST API for querying Metadata Catalog
GeoRSS feed (RSS 2.0)
Supports OpenSearch 18

19. Integrate with External Content Management System (CMS)
Custom Configuration
Using REST API to Render HTML snippets
Develop plug-ins for CMS or wiki
Configure Authentication and Single Sign-on
Integrate in Enterprise Architectures
Joomla!
JSPWiki

20. GPT 9.3 – Enhanced Documentation
Installation and Migration Guides
CSW Clients User Guide
Harvesting Tool User Guide
Metadata Editor Customization Guide
GPT Customization Guide
Localization Guide
Database Documentation
Javadoc for Developers 20

21. Where To Go From Here? Visit http://www.esri.com/gisportal
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