Geoportal solutions based on ESRI GIS platform in Southeast Europe
Krstevski, Dejan
The concept of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) has emerged and continues to advance as a framework for organizing institutions and technology to support such geospatial information sharing. SDIssconstructed with building blocks that include enabling policy, regulatory permissions, standards, organizational structures and workflows, technical architectures, stakeholder geospatial data, metadata services, and other constituent elementssare now being implemented within and among organizations and governments throughout the world. ESRI has long focused its technology development path on the creation of solutions that contribute to building and positioning the world's geospatial information resources for responsible and effective use. Its geoportal technology in particular has evolved to provide a technical mechanism for posting, discovering, and exchanging existing geospatial information resources in support of both broadly based SDIs and more narrowly framed local and organization-specific data-sharing communities. As envisioned by ESRI, the role of a geoportal is to connect geospatial data producers and users by enabling producers of geospatial information resources to create and post metadata records (citations describing their information resources) and enabling users of geospatial information resources to search for and discover metadata records that cite the particular resources that will be helpful to them.
Event: International Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructure 2010
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