Heritage Geospatial Update
We are pleased to announce we have completed the next version of our specialised hybrid text and geospatial data indexing engine, CollectionsBase.
CollectionsBase provides a seamless transformation of multiple metadata databases into a harmonised aggregated data index. Originally built for museums and archives, we can now fully support all forms of both text and geospatial data across all services: archives, museums, local history, library and Historic Environment Record.
We can connect to both static and live feeds via XML transforms (XSLT) of various heritage metadata collections management systems, live CSV and RSS formatted data and bespoke Access and SQL Server datasets.
As well as standard OpenSearch and OAI outputs, CollectionsBase now provides vector formats of GeoRSS, GeoJSON encoded WKT layers. It also provides a rugged, fast Web Map Server featuring dynamic tile caching, clustering and load balancing.
We are able to build map interfaces over multiple projections, both Ordnance Survey and Historic Ordnance Survey, Aerial, Satellite and LIDAR layers, Bing and Google Earth products. We can build with custom grid projections and special XYZ custom applications.
CollectionsBase fully supports integrated imaging within vector layers, as well as both Augmented Reality applications on iPhone and Android and has a custom supporting iPhone application.
Commercial Geospatial Update
The underlying, distributed, massively scaling search indexing is fast enough to real time index inbound geospatial encoded text information. By providing hybridised natural language processing and relevancy scoring we can go way beyond search just on GIS : for example real time analysis of hyper local retail conversations over Twitter and Facebook to vastly extend retail dynamics monitoring or vehicle tracking applications.
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