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Monty Python’s world-famous melody formed the inspiration for a successful company involved in the development of innovative multimedia database and knowledge management products: the ‘Bright Side of Life’ (known as BSL), located at Corridor 21G in Breukelen… (more…)
The ANP (Netherlands national news agency) is the most important news provider in The Netherlands. It provides news coverage for the Dutch daily newspapers, radio, television and the internet. Two of the first web services they provided were the ANP News Service and News Archive, both of which were designed and developed by BSL. Together with the ANP we defined the requirements, and created custom web applications using Oracle and Autonomy (HPE IDOL) technology. This offered high performance, high availability (24/7) and security. Most importantly: they delivered up-to-date news and archive material to ANP subscribers throughout the world. (more…)
PCM (newspaper publishers), needed a solution to help picture editors to select the best press bureau images. They needed a single search interface – independent of the source, format, or language used to describe each photo. To meet their needs, we developed their Photo Editorial System based on FRS… (more…)
Contendor is part of NDC|VBK, an important newspaper publisher in the north of Holland. BSL developed a complete set of innovative, commercial web services for Contendor that use Oracle and Autonomy K2 technologies. The services were fully integrated into the NDC editorial workflow… (more…)
The VAN EyCK image archive is a cultural online service. It was introduced by the VAN EyCK foundation in Leiden, and developed by BSL. The name is an acronym for ‘Visual Arts Network for the Exchange of Cultural Knowledge’. The system provides access to a virtual museum of still images and catalogue records. A database describing a vast range of art objects, artists from different time periods and genres, and from different art institutes. BSL played a major role in the project. First developing a prototype, and later creating the database and website. (more…)
