topic Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog in GIS Leadership User Group

Geospatial product inventory/catalog

JulieMikolajczyk — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:35:38 GMT

I am looking to get a handle on our GIS products and data through activities to inventory, catalog, record lineages, categorize, and handle other data governance tasks.

I know there are generic out of the box tools for data governance like Collibra and IO-Tahoe, but I'm not sure how well they would handle the "specialness" of geospatial data. I know we can do quite a bit to pull information like this from data via Python, but I'm looking for something we don't have to build ourselves if possible.

I thought this would be a good group to ask - has anyone found a solution?

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

GrimsleyS — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:19:41 GMT

Have you considered an operations management system?

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

TrevorH_OPE — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:06:41 GMT

You might want to check out Qonda Reports https://getqonda.com - it automatically catalogs services/items/relationships across multiple ArcGIS environments. See example screenshots below.

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

GisAdminCOG — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:59:17 GMT

Voyager is another one to consider - https://www.voyagersearch.com/, very GIS centric.

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

AdamCarnow — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:33:30 GMT

Any ideas @DerekLaw @JimVanOstenbridge ?

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

DerekLaw — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:38:57 GMT

Hi @JulieMikolajczyk,

> I am looking to get a handle on our GIS products and data through activities to inventory, catalog, record lineages, categorize, and handle other data governance tasks.

This statement is a bit broad. Do you mean: all of your "GIS products and data" in ArcGIS? or across multiple different "GIS" systems?

For ArcGIS Enterprise deployments, there is a nice sample from Esri professional services called GIS Enterprise Reporter that might meet your needs.

Hope this helps,

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

GeorgePorto — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:09:02 GMT

Hi, did you ever get a good response to this? Below doesnt seem to satisfy the data governance question. We are looking at Collibra but I do not know their ability to interpret an Esri geodatabase.

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

TrevorH_OPE — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:22:04 GMT

Could you elaborate on exactly what you are trying to achieve? Are you just looking for a centralized catalog? Or looking at governance workflows?

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

GeorgePorto — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:39:05 GMT

Hi, my company is looking at data governance tools, such as Collibra, to understand data schema and relationships, etc. This tool is for many different types of data sources, including GIS. So I was wondering if there is a thrid party enterprise data governance solution that has a hook/plug-in for Esri geodatabases.

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

TrevorH_OPE — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:43:38 GMT

Right so you are interested in Geodatabase and not Portal/Server etc

You can probably look at Sparx EA, they support Geodatabases. I havent used it for Geodatabases in a while but it may be what you are after.

https://sparxsystems.com/arcgis/

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

GeorgePorto — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:55:28 GMT

Great thank you. I will look into this.

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

HeatherFaraMultco — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:27:36 GMT

I administer Collibra and want to integrate ESRI data products and maps into data lineage and connect business glossaries. If anyone else is doing this let's connect!. There is a connector that someone in the community has create ESRI ArcGIS to Collibra integration - Collibra Marketplace, but I haven't tried that and feel like with all the rest services and such...there should be simple ways to bring in spatial data in AGOL

Re: Geospatial product inventory/catalog

TrevorH_OPE — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:31:41 GMT

Heather, could you private message me or email me at trevor@ope.nz

Im the author of Qonda Reports, Ive been asked by another client about integration with Informatica so I'd be interested in talking to you about Collibra.