Delve into our background: Browse through a selection of our projects based on our skills and see some of the innovative software, applications and web services we have created for and with our clients. We develop for many platforms and work with Windows, UNIX, Linux and OS X servers.
by bsl | Jul 20, 2015
ANP News Service Brochure
ANP News Service
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…)
by bsl | Jul 19, 2015
PCM Editorial System Brochure
PCM Editorial System
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…)
by bsl | Jul 18, 2015
NDC Contendor
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…)
by bsl | Jul 17, 2015
VAN EyCK Cultural Archive Brochure
VAN EyCK Cultural Archive
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…)
by bsl | Jul 16, 2015
Dutch Sign Language Brochure
Dutch Sign Language
It’s often difficult to learn a sign language just using drawings and photographs found in traditional sign language dictionaries. In a successful collaboration with the Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child (NSDSK) and Durham University (UK), BSL developed a sign language database (SignBase). This stored sign language videos, and grammatical information, alongside other textual and visual information. Following on from this, we developed a series of educational CD-roms, containing films and still images of signs used in Dutch Sign Language (NGT) and British Sign Language (confusingly- BSL). (more…)
