Brief: To design, create & host a web site to highlight the work undertaken for the LIFE project for the management and conservation of wet woodlands in Scotland. The resulting web site was also to present a gallery of photographs depicting wet woodlands and their management.
Solution: The resulting web site used a mixture of static and dynamic ASP based HTML. The various cases studies of woodland sites and their management and conservation status are linked to the gallery of photographs available. We provide the domain registration and hosting for this site.See for yourself: www.wetwoods.org

Brief: Produce a first version of a web site to highlight the work undertaken by organisations in the UK supporting the International Convention on Biological Diversity. The client required that the design enabled their in-house staff to continue the production of the site. The client also wanted to have a geographical searching method to enable visitors to the site to search for details about biodiversity initiatives in their area.
Solution: A set of draft designs were reviewed with the client and a final look and feel chosen. This was implemented in a series of Dreamweaver™ templates that enabled them to continue to update and add to the site. Geographical searching was achieved by implementing a copy of our unique Flash™ based Mapping application – This work was completed in 2000 and the web site has been extensively redesigned by the client. If you are interested in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan, visit: http://www.ukbap.org.uk
See also Joint Nature Conservation Commitee, UK Clearing House Mechanism

Brief: To enable the secure distribution of the 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey map series for use with the Recorder 2000 application. The maps were to be encrypted and supplied on CD. Users of the CD set should be able to apply for unlock keys for maps, to which they access, by email, fax or post. Once unlocked, the maps should be automatically installed for use with the Recorder 2000 software.
Solution: We employed triple DES encryption to distribute the maps on a CD set. A bespoke map selector application on the CD enables the user to visually select map tiles (shown with a thumbnail view and a representation of location on a map of GB). The selected map tiles can be added to a basket which can be used as a basis for an order for unlock codes. The unlock code order produced by generating an email automatically for the user addressed to the NBN as a digital order or a text file for faxing/posting. A further application (used by the NBN staff) produces secure unlock keys for the user and emails (or post/fax) them back to the user.
The whole ordering system is highly secure and efficient (the user application reads the returned keys in and unlocks the maps) and enforces the licensing requirements of the Ordnance Survey.

See for yourself: www.nbn.org.uk

Brief: To create a vertical shrink wrapped application to perform robust currency conversion with Microsoft Office applications for the Euro changeover in Europe.

Solution: The resulting application is comprised of a suite of tools that are integrated within Word and Excel. Currency conversion rates are managed centrally and can be used to control a network of installations.

Brief: To create an online representation of the NBN Species Dictionary. The required version was to be a simple reflection of the structure of the data model to highlight the concepts and the content of the standards promoted by the Species Dictionary.

Solution: We created a detailed specification for a dynamic data driven ISAPI application. The budget for the work was limited and the customer wanted to be able to alter the pages produced by the application independently. We deployed our tag based HTML templates for use with the custom ISAPI application against an MS-SQL™ database. The resulting web site enables visitors to browse and query the species listings of the Species Dictionary. The look and feel of the site has been completely revamped over the past ten years – with no need to alter the ISAPI code base.

See for yourself: www.nhm.ac.uk/nbn

See also: The NBN Index & The Wood-pasture & Parkland Information System for similar tag based ISAPI solutions

Brief: To create the foundation for a metadata standard to be used across organisations working together for the conservation of biodiversity. In addition to the production of a ’standard’ the client commissioned a metadata collection exercise to ‘pump prime’ the initiative. The client also required a dynamic web site to show case the metadata collected.
Solution: We used our own unique metadata collection tool for the collection and sharing of metadata. We built a tag based ISAPI application to present the metadata online. We have provided hosting and management of the online web application free of charge for the past ten years as an example of our metadata tools and services. See for yourself: www.UKWildlife.com/nbn