ESRI GIS Portal Toolkit 3

ESRI (CA, USA) has released GIS Portal Toolkit. GIS Portal Toolkit version 3 which includes improved installation and configuration, better metadata management and access control, and integration with ArcGIS Desktop.

The GIS Portal Toolkit is a technology and services solution for implementing local, regional, national, and global spatial data infrastructure portals. GIS Portal Toolkit 3 offers enhancements that meet the needs of users, publishers, channel stewards, and GIS portal administrators. These enhancements include the following:

• all users can now set symbology for Web Feature Services as well as download data from a predefined ArcIMS Data Delivery extension serve
  
• registered users and publishers can update their user profile and contact information as well as change their password
  
• publishers can register one or more metadata repositories for harvesting, control access to published metadata by employing user groups, and create metadata records for Web services using online forms
  
• channel stewards can benefit from a simplified Channel Editor user interface and online help
  
• GIS portal administrators can now view all users registered with a GIS portal, upgrade and delete them, manage channels, and view harvesting reports.

In addition, the overall architecture and user interface of the GIS Portal Toolkit have been updated. Also, the GIS Portal Toolkit now offers improved validation and internationalisation as well as simplified setup using a new configuration tool.