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 XI 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.