Geoportal Server allows you to catalog the locations and descriptions of
your organization's geospatial resources in a central repository called a
geoportal, which you can publish to the Internet or your Intranet.
Visitors to the geoportal can search and access these resources to use
with their projects.
If you grant them permission, visitors can also register geospatial
resources with the geoportal.
The elements, their text, and their attributes are
all known as nodes.