As content continues to grow in GIS portals, I think it would be extremely beneficial to be able to define GIS governance policies in ArcGIS Enterprise to help manage all this data. This could allow admins to define rules for life cycle management that are then applied as content is created by specific user categories, groups, or the entire organization.
For example, a city planner creates some maps, apps, and services for a zoning case. Once the planner has finished setting everything up and has the items marked as authoritative that starts a clock that after so many days the items are marked for archiving (see this other idea https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/add-the-ability-to-archive-items). Then after so many years of being archived the archive is automatically deleted. This is just one example that I hope gets a conversation going.
Some other use cases are:
- control data sharing or exporting
- checking for and reporting on item details/metadata completeness
- data review reminders
I know many of these things can be done manually or tracked in other software, but it would be very convenient to have it built directly into ArcGIS Enterprise. I think it would also facilitate growth in authoritative data which helps everyone.
Related ideas:
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/allow-marking-arcgis-server-services-as-deprec...
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/use-deprecation-flag-through-platform
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/an-quot-archived-quot-badge-like-quot
