Required Help on Geoportal Implementation

[sasidhardigumurthi]

Dear All,

I am very much new to ESRI's Geoportal. I need recommendation from the Geoportal implementers.

We have spatial data maintained in the oracle spatial. As and when changes happens in the spatial data, with our internal service mechanism we are generating the metadata attributes (wrt to OGC- ISO 19115 format) for all the feature classes respectively and saving it in separate table.

With reference to the online help, we planning to generate .XML file for each feature class and save it in defined path and later we want to register it to GEOPORTAL using "Register resource on the network" and synchronize the metadata periodically.

Please recommend whether the approach defined above will meet my objective "Auto update of metadata".
I welcome any alternative approaches

Thanks in advance

Sasidhar Digumurthi

[MartenHogeweg]

if you serve your database as an ArcGIS Server Geodatabase Service then geoportal will automatically pick up metadata for each feature class and publish that. You can also extend the harvesting framework with classes that directly read from the oracle tables and pull the XML there on a daily/weekly basis.