Heirport benefits

The Historic Environment Portal provides an inexpensive solution to effective, efficient and extensible Interoperability between distributed heterogeneous Data Sources.

Effective
- Provides a single simple query interface for the end user
- Access points have precise semantics across all targets
- Low maintenance and skills base (once installed)
Efficient
- Searches performed in parallel over a set of selected data sources
- Results are available as soon as each target completes
Extensible
- Standards based (Z39.50, Bath/CIMI Profiles, DC, XML)
- By adding further targets
- By developing specialised clients