GIS Portal Toolkit 9'3

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GIS Portal Toolkit 9.3

• Marten Hogeweg

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Evolving Spatial Data Infrastructures
Services Architecture
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

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Services Architecture for SDI

• CS-W
• UDDI
• Service Monitoring

• Server Caching
• High Performance
• Thematic Base Maps
• Integrated content

• Derive elevation
• Query National Grid
• Derive Elevation Profile
• Delineate Watershed Boundary
• Avian Flue Cluster Analysis
• Earthquake Prediction
• Hurricane Path Prediction

• ArcXML, KML
• WMS, WFS, WCSOpenLS
• REST, SOAP

• Authentication
• Access Control
• Thesaurus

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SDI Come in Flavors

• National 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

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

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GIS Portal Components
Map Viewer
GIS Portal Site Starter
Content ManagementSystem (3rd Party)
REST API GeoRSS/KML
ArcMap Java ADF ArcGIS Explorer
Harvesting Service
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Whats 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

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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

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ADF-based Map Viewer

• Shared platform across solution products
• Highly customizable through ADF template
• Interoperability Support
• OGC WMS/WCS/WFS
• GeoRSS
• ArcGIS Server
• ArcIMS

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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

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Publishing Client for ArcCatalog

• One-click publishing
• Publishes Metadata for ArcCatalog Items
• Recurses into workspaces and geodatabases
• Written in Python ? Extensible

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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
Authentication Service
GPT Servlet Connector
Metadata Service Permissions
Metadata Service
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Expanded Data Download Capabilities

• Based on project experience
• Use ArcGIS Server Geoprocessing Task
• REST/SOAP Service
• Written in Python
• Customizable

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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

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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

ArcGIS Explorer GUI
ArcMap GUI
Java ADF GUI
Search Task
CS-W Client
CS-W Service
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GPT 9.3 REST API

• REST API for querying Metadata Catalog
• GeoRSS feed (RSS 2.0)
• Supports OpenSearch

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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
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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

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Where To Go From Here?

• Visit http//www.esri.com/gisportal
• E-mail to portal_at_esri.com
• Visit the GIS Portal Toolkit Discussion Forum
  http//forums.esri.com/Forums.asp?c156
• ESRI Support page http//support.esri.com