Key Features

GIS Portal Toolkit 9.3 Components

The GIS Portal Toolkit 9.3 is built around the following components:

GIS Portal Site Starter

The GIS Portal Site Starter is a Web site that provides role-based functionality:

End User Functionality

• Initiate keyword searches from the Portal home page
• Select geographic extent of search criteria by drawing a rectangle
• Select geographic extent of search criteria by the spatial extent of a chosen gazetteer feature
• Search by subset of metadata record fields (keyword, data category, content type, publication period)
• Sort the first return by relevance, update date, content title, ascending and descending coverage area
• Access a detailed view of the metadata from the search results page
• Launch the map viewer if the search results referes to a supported Internet map service
• Access the full metadata from the the detailed metadata view
• Download Data (clip, zip and ship) from a pre-defined dataset.
• Customize the full metadata view by updating the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
• Register as a user with the Portal, thereby gaining the following functionalities:
  • Manage profile
  • Save Searches
  • Retrieve forgotten password
• Access context-sensitive help at any time
• Contact the Portal Administrator through an e-mail feedback form

Publisher Functionality

• Manage contact information
• Register metadata repository for harvesting
• Enter metadata via an online form
• Upload a metadata document as an XML file
• Validate the metadata against the FGDC, Dublin Core, ISO 19139 or ISO 19115 metadata schemas
• View a list of the metadata documents already published under the same user name
• Remove metadata documents already published under the same user name
• Download own published metadata documents
• Publish metadata through ArcCatalog

Administrator Functionality

• Search metadata by publisher, date range, title, and document ID
• Perform the following functions on one-record or multiple- record basis:
  • Delete
  • Check online status
  • Transfer ownership
  • Set status to be approved, incomplete, reviewed, or disapproved
• View and manage registered metadata repositories
• Access to all publisher functionality

Map Viewer

• View multiple map services in a single map
• Change the opacity, brightness, contrast, and RGB settings of the map services
• Adjust the layer order of the map services
• Pan, zoom, return to previous extent, and zoom to full extent
• Toggle the visibility of the map services
• View Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Web Mapping Servers (WMS) and ArcIMS services in the same map canvas
• Support OGC WMS version 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.3 map services
• Support OGC WFS version 1.1.0 map services
• Support OGC WCS version 1.0 map services
• Link to the GetCapabilities documents for WMS, WFS, WCS services from the Table of Contents
• Include map service that is referenced in a metadata document (that is part of the search results) in the existing map
• Set default projection for maps
• Change MapViewer projection on the fly
• Use gazetteer services for finding places
• Provide support for Styled Layers Descriptors (SLD)
• User-defined symbology for WFS services
• Draw graphics, symbols, and labels
• Buffer by location, feature, selection
• Search metadata catalog from Map Viewer interface.

REST API

• Query the Portal using a URL-based interface.
• Query parameters include keyword, extent, data category, content type, date.
• Retrieve results in GeoRSS, KML, HTML, and HTML snippet format.
• Use results in Web pages, RSS feeds, content management systems, external mapping applications

Harvesting Tool and Harvesting Service

• Harvest from different metadata repository protocols
  • ESRI Metadata Services
  • Z39.50
  • Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
  • Web Accessible Folders (WAF)
  • CS-W Catalogs
• Queue repositories for harvesting using the Harvesting Service

CSW Clients for ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Explorer

• Connect to a CS-W 2.0 enabled repository and search for data
• Add "Live Data and Map" resources to ArcMap or ArcGIS Explorer
• View footprints of all returned metadata from a search
• View and download metadata returned in a search

Desktop Publishing Client

The GIS Portal Toolkit (GPT) Publish Client is a tool used to publish metadata for geospatial resources to a GIS Portal at the touch of a button. The GPT Publish Client will examine the workspace (folder or geodatabase) in ArcCatalog that you specify, retrieve metadata for the items in that workspace, and publish that metadata to the GIS Portal that you indicate. It provides a quick way to publish metadata for data resources.

Each module has specific functions that become available depending on your role in the GIS Portal.