ESRI's GIS Portal Toolkit is a technology and services
solution for implementing local, regional, national, and global spatial
data infrastructure (SDI) portals. GIS portals organize content and
services such as directories, search tools, community information, support
resources, data, and applications. They provide capabilities to query
metadata records for relevant data and services and link directly to
the online sites that host content services. The content can be visualized
as maps and used in geographic queries and analyses.
ESRI's
GIS Portal Toolkit provides all the tools and templates to create a
GIS portal. Based on ESRI's ArcIMS and ArcSDE server technology, this
standards-based solution offered through ESRI's Professional Services
is a cost-effective way to get a functional site up and running quickly.
Product
Overview
Toolkit for Spatial Data Infrastructure Portals
The GIS Portal Toolkit was developed by ESRI to support implementation
of one-stop Web sites for the discovery, transmission, and use of
geographic data and mapping services maintained anywhere on the Internet.
Each GIS portal—whether implemented for a specific geographic
area, topic of interest, or broader objective—allows its users
to
A GIS portal
is a single point of access to spatial information, regardless of the
location, format, or structure of the data source. A successful portal
connects desktop users with disparate data holdings and applications.