It's a great news that ESRI Geoportal Extension will become open source! So it will be possible, I hope, to integrate the Metadata Catalog in a real content management system. In this way it will be able to have: - many searching and viewing mechanisms (viewes, faceted search,taxonomy); - dynamic output RSS feed generation, based on content types, taxonomy terms; - comments/wiki capabilities; - ease of customization in layout or functionality; - and so on. From my point of view the possibility to integrate the Metadata Catalog of ESRI GeopExt with a CMS (or with the Enterprise OpenSocial) is the key to evolve from a "OneWay" application to a collaborative GeoPortal (like ArcGIS.com) so "Long Live to ESRI Geoportal Extension open source!"
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