Astun Technology Ltd
Enterprise Metadata
Get INSPIREd Enterprise is a cloud based metadata service that provides both internal metadata maintenance and discovery services with a workflow for quality approval and subsequent publication of a subset of records to data.gov.uk or another standards compliant portal.
Features
- INSPIRE compliant service
- Automatic validation of metadata against schema
- Support for custom schemas
- QA and Approval for Publication workflows
- Serve metadata via an OGC CSW to the data.gov.uk portal
- Organisational and departmental hierarchy
- Separate internal and public metadata
- Internal and Public discovery services
- No need to implement any additional technology locally
- Enterprise Grade Support
Benefits
- Custom cloud based metadata service
- Uses GeoNetwork like most of the world's spatial data infrastructures
- Full support for UK GEMINI metadata standards
- Metadata Publishing provides full UK Location Programme compatibility
- Ensures that data is managed and discoverable across your organisation
- Provides real business value and business efficiency
- Multiple catalogs for both internal-facing and public-facing metadata
- Serves metadata to data.gov.uk and other standards compliant portals
- Automated Metadata Creation and Update saving time and resources
Pricing
£25,000 to £50,000 a unit a year
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 12
Service ID
8 8 6 7 5 5 0 2 2 5 1 2 8 6 2
Contact
Astun Technology Ltd
Astun Technology Sales Team
Telephone: 01372 744009
Email: sales@astuntechnology.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Community cloud
- Service constraints
- Most planned maintenance will be undertaken without interrupting service availability however in the event that this is not possible downtime will be scheduled and agreed with the customer in advance.
- System requirements
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- Internet access
- Connectivity via VPN or IP Restriction for secure internal users
- Appropriate sub-domain and site certificates
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
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Astun provide the support service during normal working hours, which are between 0900 and 1700 GMT, Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays.
The response times for calls logged by the customer are set out in the accompanying Astun Digital Services Terms & Conditions document. - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
Get INSPIREd Enterprise Support is included
Astun provide the following Get INSPIREd Enterprise support as standard:
1. Advice on maintaining Get INSPIREd Enterprise.
2. Advice on the implementation of the Gemini 2 metadata schema.
3. Instructions on how to remedy common faults.
5. Resolution of issues related directly to a serious flaw in Get INSPIREd Enterprise
6. The Customer may obtain Get INSPIREd Enterprise support by logging a request on Astun’s Support Portal.
First line support is provided via a permanently staffed Service Desk with second and third line support by consultancy and development teams for fault diagnosis and resolution. Customer access to web based Service Desk provides real time ticket management and correspondence on all customer tickets.
For support conditions, support processes, the service level agreement and escalation procedures are detailed in the accompanying document - iShare in the Cloud Support Conditions - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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On receipt of a purchase order Astun Technology will provide access to a customer specific Get INSPIREd Enterprise hosted environment.
Astun provide onsite training for administrators and user documentation. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- In the event that the customer terminates the service they can download their metadata records from Get INSPIREd Enterprise in a standard XML file format.
- End-of-contract process
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On receipt of a written request to terminate the Get INSPIREd Enterprise service and subject to there being no unpaid charges outstanding, Astun will delete the hosted environment including all servers, datasets, user details and customer specific configuration
Any further "Off-boarding" assistance is chargeable in accordance with Astun's SFIA rate card.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- All public facing elements of the service have been implemented using responsive design to optimise the user experience on mobile devices.
- Service interface
- No
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
-
Get INSPIREd Enterprise is based on GeoNetwork which provides a full API to interact with
Catalog Service for the Web (CSW)
OpenSearch
Open Archive Initiative (OAI)
Z39-50
RDF DCAT end point - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- No
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- The interface can be customised to incorporate customer graphics/logos
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Customers have their own dedicated virtual private cloud.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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'Get INSPIREd Enterprise' includes reporting functionality on content and search statistics. This includes the ability to filter records on a number of different parameters such as ownership, INSPIRE theme or status.
A range of statistics on searches carried out using the 'Get INSPIREd Enterprise' User Interface are available. These include searches by:
User Access
Record ownership
Metadata Updates
Metadata File Uploads
The reports can be filtered by time period and can be viewed online or provided in csv format. - Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Metadata can be exported as MEF (Metadata Exchange Format) Version 2.0 or CSV
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
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- MEF (Metadata Exchange Format) Version 2.0
- CSV
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
- MEF (Metadata Exchange Format) Version 2.0
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
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Get INSPIREd Enterprise is hosted on a high availability cloud infrastructure with a failover backup hosted in a different geographic region for maximum resilience.
Internal availability testing indicates availability in excess of 99.6%
The services are continually monitored with automated messages sent to several staff in the event of a deterioration or failure. - Approach to resilience
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Get INSPIREd Enterprise is hosted within the Amazon Web Services environment (AWS).
The entire cloud environment is backed up to a second geographic availability zone to provide additional resilience in the unlikely event that the primary availability zone becomes unavailable. - Outage reporting
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Astun set up a series of alarms to monitor the customer's cloud service. These alarms are triggered if any pre-set limits to system resources are reached (e.g. disk space). This enables Astun to address the majority of issues before any potential outage.
We also use our GeoHealth check system to monitor servers and ensure they are up and working.
The customer is informed of any potential problems by email or phone.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Access to management interfaces are restricted to login from an IP restricted network or over a dedicated VPN between customer network estate and the virtual private cloud environment dedicated to the customer. Access by Astun is also over VPN.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- Cyber Essentials
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
- We are currently working towards ISO 27001.
- Information security policies and processes
- We are currently working towards ISO 27001. Operational customer data is stored or processed within MEF (Metadata Exchange Format) Version 2.0. Information assurance accreditation has not yet been sought for iGet INSPIREd Enterprise, however we consider that Get INSPIREd Enterprise would be classified as BIL0 or BIL1, users should make appropriate decisions regarding what data to deploy within Get INSPIREd Enterprise.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- Changes to all Astun components are managed and tracked through their lifetime via a centralised bug-tracking, issue-tracking and project-management software application (JIRA) and associated private code repository (BitBucket) managed under source control. The software is built through a repeatable build process and after passing formally defined test cases is tagged to a specific version number at the point of release. Only released software is deployed to the customer virtual private cloud environments. Potential security impacts are assessed via a process of peer review.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Information on potential threats is continuously assessed through review of key online resources (release notes, security articles etc) for all third party components (operating systems, databases, frameworks etc). Penetration testing of the full system (including Astun components) is undertaken by independent third parties on all significant software releases. Whilst patch releases are routinely issued on a monthly basis, key security vulnerabilities are patched and released as soon as Astun become aware of them, irrespective of the stage in the release cycle.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- All cloud servers are set up with alarms that monitor key system resources on the server itself allowing the detection of compromises such as denial of service attacks. In addition external monitoring services are set up to make routine periodic requests to the servers (typically every 15 mins), to check that they remain responsive, and send out alerts if any servers are unavailable. Incidents are responded to as soon as we become aware of them. Logging is enabled on the servers to provide an audit trail of potential compromises for subsequent investigation.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- Security related incidents are categorised as a Priority 1 within our Service Desk system, and allocated to third line support personnel (developer) for immediate investigation and resolution. Users are able to report such incidents via the Service Desk (phone, email and web form), which is routinely monitored throughout the working day by first line support staff. Contemporaneous notes are taken during the incident and recorded against the service desk ticket, which provides a detailed report of the incident itself. Key performance indicators are also published from the Service Desk System and routinely reviewed by management on a weekly basis.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £25,000 to £50,000 a unit a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No
Service documents
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