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Museum display
For the museums in the city of Dresden we have created a collection database which acts as a virtual museum. In a temporary exhibition focusing on the Jewish inventor Emanuel Goldberg, who, amongst other achievements, was a co-founder of Zeiss Ikon, an adaptation of this application is being used as a kiosk system in the exhibition area. Here, visitors can access information about the exhibits during their visit. As a result, the collection database can be used for temporary events.
The web database’s interfaces can be set up cost effectively as a kiosk system for an exhibition project with relatively little effort. Based on the user interface’s modular structure, single functions in the collection database can be put together for temporary events as required. The data pertaining to the relevant works will then be linked with this adaptation.
Virtual museum
Dresden’s museums are part of an association of eight municipal museums in the regional capital of Saxony and look after the city’s art collection, objects pertaining to the city’s history and Saxony’s industrial and technological history. They represent the memory of civic Dresden and the region and document its varied history as silent witnesses. The collections comprise artworks and objects of all kinds. Paintings, graphics, sculptures and industrial objects, written documents and handicrafts.
For some time, these artefacts have been digitalized to present them on the internet to a wider audience. In the “virtual museum” thus created, users can become acquainted with the collections irrespective of where they are located, and follow up on what they have seen during a museum visit, thus deepening their knowledge. This expansion into the virtual world offers museums many attractive options. They can expand their reach, involve the interested public more and continue to build on their social significance. The creation of the collection database was put out to tender as part of an ideas competition by the museums of the city of Dresden. Our concept prevailed against three other competitors, winning the contract to implement the project.
The focus of our approach is always based on the current content, be it individual objects, curated object contexts or results of user inputs such as searches or assembling artefacts in collection folders. All the tool’s controls are arranged around the edges and can be folded out when needed. This provides the greatest amount of space possible for the objects to be displayed at full resolution and shown in the greatest detail. Depending on the context, further levels of detail with meta information, alternative views and contexts can be displayed.
It is possible to access the collection both by browsing and by taking a specific route. In addition to curated tours, access to the academic system, and a field-based filter, above all, the integrated live full text search offers immediate and simple access to the many thousands of objects that have lain dormant for years as undiscovered treasures in the archives, and which in future years will be available to public scrutiny.
TCloud
As part of a prototype project for Schneider-Neureuthner Partner AG (SNP), we have explored how complex information can be intuitively represented and used.
On behalf of its customers, SNP is carrying out SAP transformations, during which detailed insights into customer systems are required. In large companies, SAP systems create complex, linked structures which vary in different ways depending on the angle and task in hand. These structures cannot be easily illustrated with simple, tabular representations. Therefore, they do not facilitate intuitive access and do not demonstrate their effectiveness in the transformation process adequately.
We have implemented three measures in the prototype that allow structures to be represented more clearly and used more effectively:
- Using a modern, information-centred layout supports detecting relevant information quicker.
- Use-case oriented aggregations reduce the wealth of information and only present the details germane to the current task.
- Interactive tools structure the information separately for the respective context. They offer options for changing perspectives and for focusing on specific aspects of currently relevant structures.
Energy campus
The Competence Centre for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency (CC4E) located on the Energy Campus at HAW Hamburg is developing sustainable solutions for society’s energy problems. In a smart grid laboratory at the institution, efficient and intelligent strategies are being developed and tested to analyze the interaction of energy production, consumption and storage. As part of the hackathon “What the Data!?” hosted by Cybus and Dezera, we built a basic system for monitoring energy flows in house.
Electricity is generated on campus using photovoltaics and thermal power stations. If the current consumption is higher than the generation that moment, the difference is covered by the building connection to the electricity grid. On the other hand, electricity can be stored in the public grid as soon as the current generation exceeds actual use. Our live visualisation shows the current relationship between supply and consumption.
The energy campus data is read out using Cybus middleware and provided from a MQTT broker. Reshin subscribes to the relevant topics of the broker, stores them for historical access and uses them for various visualizations.
U-Multirank mobile
U-Multirank is a new multidimensional, user-driven approach to international ranking of higher education institutions. The dimensions it includes are teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and regional engagement. Based on empirical data U-Multirank will compare institutions with similar institutional profiles and allow users to develop personalised rankings by selecting indicators in terms of their own preferences.
European Commission is funding the project for the next two years. A first ranking will be published in early 2014 covering at least 500 higher education institutions from Europe and beyond. It will provide an institutional ranking of whole institutions as well as field-based rankings for engineering, business and physics. After 2014 the coverage of institutions and fields will be extended progressively.
Folge 3 is a partner in an international consortium to develop U-Multirank. We were responsible to deliver the brand strategy, the logo and the webtool.
… more about the project: U-Multirank Sunburst
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Press
ZEIT online
Tagesspiegel
The New York Times
ETH Zürich
Süddeutsche Zeitung
EuroScientist
ELK
The ELK stack (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana) offers real-time analytics and custom dashboarding as an open-source solution. Elastic is used as a flexible big data store by the top Fortune 500 companies. Logstash ensures continuous importing of data, and Kibana allows its flexible visualization.
Being available as open source, solutions can be set up and tried out quickly using the ELK stack. The higher the requirements are, the more complex planning, installation and operation becomes. At that point at the latest, it is worth putting trust in collaborating with specialists.
Folge 3 offers support in using ELK
- Configuration of Elastic
- Efficient log parsing with Logstash
- Building dashboards with Kibana
- Implementing custom expansions for Elastic, Logstash, Kibana
We have developed expansions for more sophisticated installations using Reshin, the data analytics platform which can be operated securely in companies with the ELK platform, allowing to use ELK not only for monitoring and visualization but data analytics, too.
Big Data Analytics
Big data, data analytics, business intelligence …
Are these the methods that will characterize the business world of the future?
Or are they just buzz words used by technophile trendsetters? Is data really the ‘new oil’?
Or is it a passing fad?
At Folge 3, we firmly believe that data and its analysis will play a more prominent role for businesses in the future.
It will influence not only decision makers and financial controllers, but also staff in various departments as much as in marketing and sales.
Increasingly, many companies are finding themselves confronted with ever greater volumes of data on account of the progression of digitalization.
We identified questions, that keep reoccurring throughout all sectors:
How can I use the incoming data…
… to obtain more precise insights?
… to plan for the future?
… to increase the company’s performance?
Folge 3 supports authorities, institutions and organizations in developing data analytics solutions.
We develop projects in cooperation with our clients, ensure implementation and upon demand operate the solution.
At the beginning of a project we support you in defining objectives and selecting methods.
We develop project specifications and develop scenarios for implementing these.
We help to determine what the right tools are, and set up the processes necessary for our clients’ success.
If necessary, we carry out the projects independently, or support staff in implementing them.
Folge 3 has many years of experience in implementing recommender systems, structuring and operating ontology-based applications,
visualizing large volumes of data and retrieving text-based information. Using Reshin, our data platform, we conduct specific data mining and enable real time data analytics as a continuous process.
Real estate guide
The real estate guide of the German business magazine Capital gives an overview of residential properties in 180 German cities. Prospective buyers and tenants can get detailed information about the residential market in designated areas. Holiday properties in 166 destinations are listed as well.
Users get information about the locality, the architectural structure und infrastructure of the area as well as the average rent and property prices. A performing forecast for the next 12 months is also available. The results can be compared with other areas. The comments box allows users to directly exchange their input.