Real World Use Cases: MapStore for the MuseiD Portal, the Italian Digital Museums initiative
Dear Readers,
in this post we would like to talk to you about the work we performed to add mapping capabilities to the MuseiD Portal that has been developed for the Italian “Ministero dei Beni Culturali” (the department of the Italian Government that looks after our Cultural Heritage) to allow users (technical and non-technical) to search for and get information about masterpieces of art belonging to many different collections from all over Italy. More information here.
- the search engine is based on Apache SOLR
- the portal is OpenCMS
- the digital library is Fedora
- geocode the resources as part of the ingestion process
- provide a map based visualization for the resources embedded within the existing portal and synchronized with the portal search itself.
For the map based visualization we decided to use the usual suspects:
- we use PostGIS to store geolocated resources
- we use a cluster of GeoServer to allow the OpenCMS to query such resources dynamically at search time
- we use MapStore to place on the map the geolocated resources
If you are interested in knowing more about these activites, do not heasitate to contact us. If you want to know more about MapStore, check its website here.
The GeoSolutions team,