Features

Harvester features

Following is a list of features for the Geoportal Server harvester:

1. Support harvesting metadata from a variety of sources:

• ArcGIS Server services
• Portal for ArcGIS/ArcGIS Online
• Geoportal Server 1.x (Migration tool)
• Geoportal Server 2.x
• Content from database tables
• Metadata for feature classes and tables in an enterprise geodatabase
• OAI-PMH
• CSW 2.0.2
• CKAN 1.1
• DATA.GOV
• WAF (Web Accessible Folder)
• Metadata files in a local folder (it can also extract property of files for many file types such as pdfs, doc, xls, zip... and harvest as metadata)
• STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs)
• THREDDS
• DCAT

2. Support harvesting to multiple destination repository types:

• Geoportal Server 2.x
• Local folder
• Portal for ArcGIS/ArcGIS Online

3. Extensibility:

• API for creating custom protocol adaptors for both data source and destinations
• API for creating custom filters, processors, metadata analyzers or other elements of the workflow

4. Multiple deployment options:

• Deploy and run as a web application inside Java web server like Apache Tomcat, Oracle Glassfish, etc.
• Run as stand alone, command line Java application

5. Other:

• Migration tool for migrating from Geoportal 1.2.x to Geoportal 2.5.x