Difference between revisions of "Geoportal Server"

Latest revision as of 15:38, January 30, 2012

Geoportal Server: Open Source Software for Data Discovery and More

Time: 4:00-5:30

Location: Dupont Room

Convener: White, Casey, Relph, Neufeld, Parrish via the Web, Li

ESRI GIS portal toolkit -> Geoportal Server ( Christine White (ESRI))
- Highly configurable
- Built on existing OSS platforms
- Active development

NODC use of Geoportal for Integration/Interoperation, John Relph, NODC, Ken Casey, NODC, Li, Jeff (NODC)
- Archival work - human and machine interfaces
  - Target access to archives through various software services
  - Need for service integration and organization
- Geoportal fills this need
- Machine-to-machine communication via REST URL
  - Applications can construct individual URLs to pull targeted data
    - Metadata selections, but custom coding often needed for unique datasets
  - This lends itself to an agile archive which can conform to many different data/metadata requests
  - Dynamic, metadata created Web Accessible Folders (WAFs)
    - Brief Access Records merged with FGDC XML generates live archive WAF
NODC Collections WAF
- Collection level records, with HTML for Google harvesting
Data.gov/Geospatial One-Stop WAFs
- Immediately downloadable WAF only
NODC Geoportal Server Usability Test for first-time users
- Most use was scientific research
- Many different countries
- Spatial search had highest difficulty, free text and web interface tasks were also problematic
- Indicated that the map locator needs work, as well as text search, default syntax, and ontology services were needed
- Additional data visualization needed
- Move for Geoportal to use ISO19115-2 metadata

NGDC use of Geoportal David Neufeld (NGDC)
- Mixed content, WAF centric
  - Common Property Meanings to create shared concepts
    - Simplifies search modifications, custom links to data
- Improving metadata content
  - Must work with data providers
  - Metadata report card, based on metadata conventions
- Federated searches
Collaborations
- Information sharing
- GEO-IDE Wiki
- Locator services
- Google code shared repository possible

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 ==Key Topics==
-*GIS portal toolkit -> Geoportal Server
+* ESRI GIS portal toolkit -> Geoportal Server ([[Media:ChristineWhite(ESRI).pptx| Christine White (ESRI)]])
 **Highly configurable
 **Built on existing OSS platforms
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-*NODC use of Geoportal for Integration/Interoperation
+*NODC use of Geoportal for Integration/Interoperation, [[Media:JohnRelph(NODC).ppt|John Relph, NODC]], [[Media:KennethCasey(NODC).ppt|Ken Casey, NODC]], [[Media:LiJeff(NODC).ppt|Li, Jeff (NODC)]]
 **Archival work - human and machine interfaces
 ***Target access to archives through various software services
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-*NGDC use of Geoportal
+*NGDC use of Geoportal [[Media:DavidNeufeld(NGDC).pptx|David Neufeld (NGDC)]]
 **Mixed content, WAF centric
 ***Common Property Meanings to create shared concepts
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-*EPA use of Geoportal
+*EPA use of Geoportal [[Media:DavidParrish(EPA).pptx|David Parrish (EPA)]]
 **[https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/main/home.page Environmental Dataset Gatewaty (EDG)]
 **v 1.0 of Geoportal customized for EPA needs