Information Management

The Geospatial Feature Metabase is a proven solution for rapid datawarehouse implementation, providing advanced data acquisition, archival, cataloging and disemination capabilities.

Overview

The Web Enterprise Suite X data warehouse management component GFM is specifically designed for receiving, archiving, cataloging, maintaining and disseminating data holdings over intranets and wide area networks.

GFM provides the following:

• A data warehouse, built on common RDBMSs for UNIX and Windows environments, which accepts data from legacy systems and existing databases in real time or batch-loading. Data can be re-mapped, quality controlled, converted, cataloged, archived (on-line or off-line) and/or disseminated elsewhere in various formats, as required.
  
  
• GFM may be implemented using either Oracle Spatial or Oracle Locator and is an end-to-end Web Feature Service (Transactional) (WFS-T) server.
  
  
• A browser interface to allow users to view samples, images and metadata associated with search results, to determine the appropriateness of the results.
  
  
• ODBC-compliant transactional database tools permit population of the database via data loading and transfer from existing databases and other data sources (real-time, on-line or off-line).
  
  
• Full functionality for implementing and administering data input, storage, output and integrity.
  
  
• On-line ordering and delivery of data.
  
  
• Ordering information for datasets that are cataloged, but not held, by GFM.
  
  
• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for modifying and generating custom user interfaces in WWW environments.
  

GFM is a component of Compusult’s Web Enterprise Suite; a set of Internet-based applications and toolkits that support Web mapping, information cataloging, discovery, retrieval and delivery services.

GFM is also a contributor to the Open Geospatial Consortium Catalogue Services Interoperability initiative.