Geospatial product inventory/catalog

[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. 

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?

[GrimsleyS]

Have you considered an operations management system?

[Trevor_Hart]

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.

[GisAdminCOG]

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

[AdamCarnow]

Any ideas @DerekLaw @JimVanOstenbridge ?

[DerekLaw]

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,

[GeorgePorto]

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.

[Trevor_Hart]

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

[GeorgePorto]

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.  

[Trevor_Hart]

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/