Abstract: The geoportal is a mapping web site; it can be described as specialized software and technologies for spatial data processing. Geoportal's main task is to provide the user with the tools and services of storing and cataloguing, publications and download the spatial (geographic) data, search and filter by metadata, interactive web visualization, direct access to geodata based web mapping services. Geoportal developed in ICM SB RAS with appropriate set of its components and services, has become a GIS platform for creating a number of applied GIS web applications. The article deals with the experience of design and development of these systems.

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The materials presented at the Conference describe the results of recent years in the following areas: Open access to scientific data and knowledge in Earth Sciences; Data peculiarities in Earth Sciences: new concepts and methods, tools for their collection, integration and processing in different information systems, including systems with intensive use of data; Data mining and mathematical simulation of natural processes in Earth Sciences. Evolution of classical GIS-applications in Earth Sciences; Application to Critical Raw Materials (CRM); social aspects of mining (e.g., the Social Licence to Operate [SLO]); predictive mapping and applications to exploration, landuse and search for extensions of known deposits; Intelligent data analysis, elicitation of facts and knowledge from scientific publications. Thesauruses, ontologies and conceptual modeling. Semantic WEB, linked data. Services. Content semantic structuring. Applications for geosciences, e.g., Ontology-based Dynamic Decision Graphs for Expert systems and decision-aid tools; Application of methods and technologies of the remote sensing in Earth Sciences: from satellites to unmanned aerial vehicles; Information technologies for demonstration and popularization of scientific achievements in Earth Sciences; Applications: environmental risks including mining wastes, natural hazards, water resource management, etc.

Abstract: Research on design and development of software and technological support for geo-portal of ICM SB RAS are discussed. Its main components and implementation details are presented. A number of problems are discussed in details, such as web-based metadata catalog, the logic of building applications based on web services geoportal. A list of implemented information systems, based on discussed technologies is presented. The authors were directly involved in the develop-ment and implementation of geoportal based projects. In developing the software many different software libraries and components were used. Web mapping user interface was created using a number of open source libraries. To create a server-side web application authors used GIS platforms MapGuide Open Source and Min-nesota Mapserver. GeoWebCache was another essential component of distributed web mapping ap-plications. By analyzing and summarizing the experience gained creating information systems, it should be noted that the use of geoportal-based solutions in this area, can dramatically improve the efficiency of software development and problems solving.