INSPIRE Blog

ArcGIS supports INSPIRE Good Practices workflows for network services simplification. Accepted values for the metadata distribution protocol element are provided below.

This spring, a new user interface for the INSPIRE reference validator was released, improving its usability. ArcGIS provides tools to create valid INSPIRE datasets, metadata, and services.

This lesson steps you through using the ArcGIS Pro Metadata Editor to create INSPIRE Metadata v2 for dataset metadata. UPDATED 12-April 2023 to remove references to the ArcGIS Pro Add-In that was previously required to be installed.

This lesson steps you through using the ArcGIS Enterprise metadata editor classic to create INSPIRE Metadata v2 for dataset metadata. This tutorial applies to creating INSPIRE Metadata in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal 10.9 to 11.2. Today, ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3+ include the new metadata editor. See Create INSPIRE Metadata using ArcGIS’s New Metadata Editor. 

This lesson steps you through using the Esri Geoportal Server Catalog v2.6.4 Metadata Editor to create INSPIRE Metadata v2 for dataset metadata with the INSPIRE_MD2 Add-In. UPDATED 23-June-2021 to include steps using the new INSPIRE Reference Validator.