From: Brent W. <pc...@pc...> - 2013-11-23 00:20:23
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Without getting into a debate about the standards support (or lack) of various implementations of OGC services in various implementations - there are plenty of examples of poor interoperability - and not just from proprietary implementations... but I know of no (yes ZERO) institutions who have implemented a working ESRI geoportal without some painful issues to work through. I'm not saying there are none - just none I know of. Even the ESRI developers we are working with wanted the new tool to be open source licenced so that other ESRI users could benefit, so I assume others I don't know of would also benefit.. I would hope the ESRI community will welcome having a choice of open source tools in this area to enable them to reliably participate in a federated, open standards based metadata network. Brent Wood ________________________________ From: Marten Hogeweg <mho...@es...> To: Brent Wood <pc...@pc...>; Lionel Menard <lio...@mi...>; "geo...@li..." <geo...@li...> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 12:46 PM Subject: RE: [GeoNetwork-users] Geoportal issues Hi all, Esri Geoportal Server IS open source and provide OGC compliant CSW services. Geoportal Server does NOT require any Esri software license and works with services from Esri or with OGC services from other software. We have a open source tool already that allows for registering metadata for files in file systems and and feature classes in geodatabases (personal, file, enterprise) with the Geoportal Server for exposing through CSW. Users of ArcGIS Server may also publish geodatabase services that Geoportal Server can index (along with all other ArcGIS Server service types including KML, W*S, and REST services). We also have an open source CSW client for ArcGIS Desktop users that can connect to may flavors, versions, and brands of CSW (OGCCORE, APISO, ebRIM) and can be extended with custom profiles for specific catalogs. You can fork, customize, and contribute to Geoportal Server at https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server And while you're at github, check out the 160 public repos (https://github.com/Esri) of other Esri open source tools, components, API, templates, SDK, and what have you. Cheers, @martenhogeweg -----Original Message----- From: Brent Wood [mailto:pc...@pc...] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 3:36 PM To: Lionel Menard; geo...@li... Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Geoportal issues Hi Lionel, We have had problems connecting to Geoportal. We are developng a free Open Source tool for ESRI Arc Server to fix the lack of effective CSW support for ESRI geodabases. It is a python based tool that harvests metadata from the geodabase and provides a CSW service (tested against Geometwork). Hopefully this will allow ESRI users to have a valid CSW service with their ESRI system, and introduce them to Open Source as well :-) On a related note - we have upgraded our Geonetwork catalogue at NIWA - which may have addressed some of the issues you had with it? Cheers, Brent Wood ________________________________ From: Lionel Menard <lio...@mi...> To: geo...@li... Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Geoportal issues Hi everyone, **GeoNetwork Version:2.10.1 ** http://geocatalog.webservice-energy.org I went on this interesting thread as I have trouble setting up a CSW harvest from my GeoNetwork to an ESRI Geoportal. At harvest set-up stage, I try to add "Search Criteria" to filter the harvest. We I do so, I'm not able to save this new entry. The save button does not work. If I do not add such "Search criteria" I can save the harvest target. I need these "Search Criteria" as I don't want to harvest the whole huge content of the remote Geoportal. For the same reason I've not yet try the harvest of the whole Geoportal. Does anyone has the same pb. ? Has someone successfully harvest a remote CSW ESRI Geoportal yet ? Thanks in advance for your help. Lionel -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Geoportal-issues-tp5047261p5090611.html Sent from the GeoNetwork users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. 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