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I need to retrieve the metadata information from a feature layer. I have the web services available and I can run queries to retrieve the feature attributes, but I don't know any method to retrieve the metadata. Is there any sample or code snippet that I can use to understand the method?

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By meta data, do you mean the actual metadata of the featureclasses? Or do you want all that information that one sees on the mapservice page? – Devdatta Tengshe Jun 28 '12 at 0:58
I mean the actual metadata. I think I can get the Map Service information via a JSON request (am I right?!), but I don't know if the actual metadata could be available. – Fred Jun 28 '12 at 14:14

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Arcgis Server directly cannot serve the metadata for your geographic data.

I believe that ESRI's Geoportal can do so: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/geoportal

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