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Working in the heritage industry

We have a long established reputation for understanding the needs of heritage, museums, archives and the built environment organisations and are corporate members of the Museums Association. We were working in the museums industry even before the company was formed in 1998, and have continued to work with organisations of all sizes, from small local museums and volunteer groups to national government departments.

Work we're especially known for:

Darwin Country for our local museums service here in Shrewsbury. This was an ICT Challenge Funded project and is still being supported by us, client updated and sustainable after 8 years.

Cornucopia for (originally Resource) MLA, the database of English museums and their primary collections. A multidimensional database based on UKOLN's RSLP, currently supporting various other sites (Inspire, MICHAEL, CollectionsTrust, ACESS) via various methods including REST, OAI harvesting and SOAP. Also runs Cecilia and Concert Programmes

Collections Trust, Collections Link and Cultural Property Advice

A trinity of advice websites created for MDA (Collections Trust), MLA and DCMS running on a heavily customised version of our content management framework with numerous bespoke databases and interfaces. Collections Link won Best Museum Professional's Site at Museums and the Web 2007.

The Heritage Environment Sites of Shropshire and Surrey

Two large scale projects that combine many GB of Sites and Monuments Record (HER) with archive, museum and local history data. We've 'time served' practical experience of mapping spatial data with collections management system data from most of the leading UK vendors. We've created crosswalks from object records, archive records and HER, via Dublin Core and MDA SPECTRUM utilising XML and XSLT. We've 'mashed up' with user generated content, timelines and mapping systems from Google and Microsoft.

... and as a postscript, we're about to combine Shropshire's data with biodiversity, literature and tourism data too. Watch this space!