MIT is releasing an Arcgis toolbar for searching the SOLR indexes and loading OGP layers directly in users’ maps. The toolbar is a standard Arcgis toolbar available in Arcmap. The code constructs a SOLR query based on the users search criteria and populates a Windows form. MIT will release the code to the large OpenGeoPortal community later in the spring.
The toolbar only searches the MIT repository. A new version is being developed that will search other repositories. This version will be able to add any public data as a WFS layer. This version should be available in May, 2013.