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Bring your collections to life, without the headaches
When your audience visits your online collections, they expect a fast, intuitive, and beautiful experience. But behind the scenes, making that happen can be far more complex than it looks — especially when dealing directly with the intersection of cultural data and enterprise search.
That’s why we created Rosetta — a flexible, future-proof, configuration-driven API layer, specifically tailored to the needs of museums and cultural institutions. Rosetta acts as the bridge between your collection-related data, your website and (if required) the wider landscape of API consumers. It removes technical barriers to data delivery and formatting, and puts how you share your data back under your control
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Why Rosetta changes the game
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Future-proof your investment
Technology evolves — search technology versions change, your data model changes, required search behaviour changes. Normally, these can break your website or force expensive redevelopment. Rosetta shields you from these changes, so that your Collections Online and APIs keep running smoothly, insulated from what happens behind the scenes.
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No search expertise required
Your in-house developers or external design agency don't need to learn the complexities of enterprise search technologies, or indeed your internal data model. Rosetta offers a simple, intuitive request interface — even for complex multi-criteria searches. It handles the tricky parts like search relevance tuning and ranking — because that’s our speciality. With Rosetta, your developers will work with a simple, streamlined API, built to their requirements in configuration. They don’t have to become search experts, which means your web projects get delivered faster, more easily, and more affordably.
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Built-in support for cultural heritage standards
Out of the box, Rosetta can deliver your data in a wide range of formats/protocols and standards — including IIIF, OAI, LinkedArt, GraphQL, Dublin Core, LIDO, EDM, MarcXML and Skos/JSkos — all extensible based on your specific needs. It can also provide any custom JSON or XML structure your project requires via configuration only.
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High performance, resilient, and well documented
Rosetta supports caching and load balancing to ensure your audience always gets a responsive experience. Our built-in Swagger documentation and testing tools make it effortless for your developers to explore, test, and integrate your API.
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Rapid changes, no redeployment
Your online presence should be robust and adaptable. With Rosetta’s configuration-over-code approach, changes can be made simply by updating a configuration file — no software redeployment, no downtime. Because it’s just configuration, these changes can be handled not only by our own team, but also by third-party technical supplier or indeed your own internal team. This means your site can adapt and evolve quickly, efficiently, and without bottlenecks under your control..
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Export data effortlessly
Need to share or reuse your collection data? Our export tools can send your data to CSV, Elasticsearch, or other targets — including an asynchronous export service for large datasets, so your website stays snappy.
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Room to grow
Rosetta’s plugin system allows for easy integration of new features — from multilingual support and related-data linking, to advanced data profiles — ensuring your Collections Online platform can evolve with your vision.
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Why not go direct to enterprise search?
Enterprise search applications are extremely powerful, but using them effectively requires specialist knowledge and can lead to inefficient and overly complex requests — even for something as simple as a keyword search. With rich cultural data, the models become intricate and the learning curve steep. Duplicating that expertise across multiple agencies wastes time and resources.
Rosetta eliminates that duplication. It keeps your publication workflow and your website insulated from each other’s changes, while ensuring both benefit from expert-tuned search and a simplified, future-proof interface.
Rosetta: the elegant, expert-built bridge between your data and your audience.
Focus on telling your stories — we’ll take care of the technology.