Esri Geoportal Server Catalog | Wiki Documentation

Esri Geoportal Server is a free and open-source metadata catalog and search application based on Elasticsearch or OpenSearch. It complements ArcGIS for organizations managing, serving, and harvesting metadata.

Learn how to install, configure, customize, and use Esri Geoportal Server Catalog, while its sibling Esri Geoportal Server Harvester is managed in a separate repository.

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Using Esri Geoportal Server

Try it out on our live sandbox site! Interested in imagery catalogs? This configuration contains over 100,000 images in its catalog

User Guide

Learn how to search and find records in Esri Geoportal Server

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Deploy Esri Geoportal Server

Esri Geoportal Server consists of two separate modules -- Catalog and Harvester. Separate modules are helpful when users need catalog capabilities without metadata harvesting capabilities.

Latest Release

• Click here to access the latest release, release notes, and downloads.

Features

• Explore the features supported by Geoportal Server Catalog.

Installation and Upgrade

Learn how to:

• Install Geoportal Server Catalog
• Setup for high-availability or work with very large catalogs

Configure and Customize

Learn how to:

• Setup Catalog in an IDE
• Configure the Index
• Configure security for Geoportal Server Catalog
  • Configure Security - Simple
  • Configure Security - LDAP
  • Configure Security - ArcGIS
• Localize Geoportal Server Catalog
• Customize metadata profiles
• Customize search panel
• Map XML element to Elasticsearch field
• Configure group access
• Configure for a disconnected environment
• Configure to search other catalogs
• Customize and use DCAT
• Configure collections
• Configure Geoportal Server as a Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC)
• Other configurations

CSW and the INSPIRE Discovery Service

Learn how to:

• Install and use the OGC CSW Search Component
• Use CSW 2.0.2, CSW 3.0, and Opensearch services in Geoportal 2.x, Elasticsearch catalogs, ArcGIS Enterprise, and ArcGIS Online
• Configure and use Geoportal for INSPIRE

Troubleshooting

Spring security schema - Update

Releases and Downloads

Click here for release details.

• 3.0.1 - July 8, 2025
• 2.7.2 - October 4, 2024
• 2.7.1 - December 21, 2023
• 2.7.0 - June 16, 2023
• 2.6.5 - December 17, 2021
• 2.6.4 - July 8, 2020
• 2.6.3 - April 7, 2020
• 2.6.2 - May 3, 2019
• 2.6.1 - October 9, 2018
• 2.6.0 - May 7, 2018
• 2.5.2 - March 2, 2018
• 2.5.1 - September 28, 2017
• 2.5.0 - January 6, 2017
• 2.0.2 - December 21, 2016
• 2.0.1 - June 24, 2016
• 2.0.0 - May 5, 2016, the initial release of Esri Geoportal Server Catalog!
• 1.x - Esri Geoportal Server v1 is now retired; its archive is available here