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Features

ZhongPing Guo edited this page Jul 13, 2021 · 18 revisions

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