GeoViQua Metadata and Features for the Geoportal Server

Situation

ESRI published their source code of the Geoportal Server as Open Source, and now it is on GitHub. As it is a Geoportal software, it would be greatly enhanced by GeoViQua features such as user quality model and

Geoportal Server

Source: https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server

Git: https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server.git

Demo: http://gptogc.esri.com/geoportal/

Geoportal Server Evaluation

• Local test installation
• Test installation on our own servers
• Load catalog data related to GeoViQua
• How good is the documentation?
• How easily can it be extended?

Requirements

See https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Preinstallation-1.2.2:

• Java Servlet Container (Tomcat at least version 6.0.32)
• Mail Server (optionally)
• LDAP access (optionally, recommended)
• ArcGIS Server (optionally, one may use server hosted by another organization; used for map services, geocoding, etc.)
• ArcGIS Desktop to use Geoportal Client for ArcGIS Desktop (publishing, searching from within ArcGIS)

Installation

See https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Installation-Version-1.2.2

Extension

See

• https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Development-topics
• https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Eclipse-Project-from-Source-Code
• http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/geoportal/index.php?title=Customizations

Example adding custom quality indicators:

• Extend metadata index https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Details-of-Lucene-Indexing-in-the-Geoportal
• Create new catalog profile https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Supported-CSW-Profiles-for-Synchronization#wiki-Add_support_for_a_new_profile
• Update catalog response templates https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Add-Custom-Link-to-a-Search-Result

Process is based on extending/creating new XSLT documents.

There is also a detailed description on how to add new filter and search criteria based on new indexing parameters: https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Add-Custom-Search-Criteria

Ratings, Comments and Resource Review feature

https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Ratings-and-Comments-for-Search-Results

GeoViQua Geoportal Server Fork

If the evaluation shows that extension can be done easily, we can fork the project on GitHub.

Metadata

• Topic created by: DanielNuest
• Topic created on: 2013-03-11