Using Geoportal Extension Search

Introduction

The Geoportal extension search is a powerful way to discover metadata documents leading to valuable data resources. The following sections describe how to use Geoportal extension search functionality to its fullest.



You can also search a Geoportal from the browser directly by adding it to your list of search providers.

• There are a number of search page options available to help narrow search results.
• Users can leverage lucene search query syntax
to refine search results.
• Users can also search through an ontology service in the Geoportal to refine search terms.
• Search results can be viewed and used in many different ways.

The results that are returned from a user's search are determined by the rules defined by the geoportal concerning how information within a published metadata document are indexed. For more information on indexing, see How Lucene Indexing Works in the Geoportal.