Technology
The Conservation Geoportal was based on ESRI's GIS Portal Toolkit (Version 3.0) and ArcWeb Services technologies. Currently the site is maintained and hosted by ESRI. Although the underlying technology was proprietary, the Conservation Geoportal supports several metadata standards and OpenGIS standards, as:
- FGDC and ISO 19115 metadata standards
- Harvesting from ArcIMS, Z39.50, OAI, and WAF based metadata repositories
- OpenGIS WFS, WMS, and WCS services through the map viewer
- ArcIMS Image and ArcGIS Image Server
- OpenLS geocoder
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“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
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