About
intelligen is a UK-based
international consultancy providing consultancy, contract and
freelance services, in document, multimedia and information management.
Focussing on the oil & gas industry, intelligen also has key
competencies in the nuclear industry, as well as in
libraries, museums, archives, and
institutions.
Our specialist knowledge also encompasses digital and conventional conservation
and preservation, as well as digital and print publishing.
History
Principal John
Baker (right) has been practising in the information and multimedia
management industry since the early late 1980's.
The credo was to provide professional
document management, project management, and multimedia
consultancy.
Previous engagements have involved
working with:
- PowerGen (now
eON) at Cottam Power
Station in Lincolnshire, England
-
Texaco (now part of
Chevron) in
Aberdeen and at their refinery
at Pembroke in south-west Wales
-
Mobil North
Sea Ltd, St Fergus, Scotland
-
Shell
Aberdeen
-
BP
Aberdeen and London
- Amoco (now a part of BP)
- Ford
- London Underground
- St Germaine Nuclear (Paris)
- Scottish Nuclear (now part of
British Energy)
- British Energy at Sellafield and
Sizewell
.... and
many others.
In 1999, international recognition was
gained, with John securing a long-term
document and information management consultancy posting lasting 18
months. This covered
two U.S. based nuclear
power Fortune 500 clients,
PSEG in New Jersey's Hope Creek, and Nuclear Management Company
(original licensee,) which was taken over by
FPL Energy (Florida
Power & Light, which during 2009 became
NextEra
Energy Resources.) Based
within the admin HQ in Milwaukee, this project also involved working
with the Point Beach Power Plant on the Lake Michigan coast.
Present
The consultancy is located
in the north-east of Scotland, close to Aberdeen, the 'oil capital' of
Europe.
intelligen provides a wide range of services, based on
the principals previous engagements throughout the UK,
including involvement in minor MoD contracts and
editorial work with the B2B magazine
IDMi.
New challenges mean
see intelligen actively involved in the
international oil & gas industry, as well as having multimedia and
publishing interests.
In January 2012, principal John Baker
is to travel to Singapore to present the latest ideas on digital
preservation to a symposium of Asia-based delegates.
Business Sectors
 intelligen's experience allows
the consultancy to operate within the
following business sectors:
- Oil & Gas
(exploration, production,
de-commissioning)
- Nuclear & Fossil Fuel
(generation and
de-commissioning)
- Space & Defence
- Manufacturing
(R&D, process and
fabrication)
- Research
(Scientific, industrial and
commercial)
- Local Government
(admin, planning and
building control)
- Construction
(transport, rail and
commercial)
- Banking, Finance and Insurance
(data
conversion, legacy data conversion & migration)
Experience Profile
This is available on request. Please feel
free to contact
johnbaker@intelligen.co.uk for further information.
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Key Competencies
ICT
- Systems: MIS, BMS and EDM system
analysis, design, configuration, procurement, implementation,
data/document migration, help manuals and system training.
- Standards: Active member of an
international microfilm standards committee.
- Data Conversion: Conversion of Hollerith data
from aperture cards to Excel, with validation and verification ready
for import into a new system. The data was then used to access and
retrieve digital images created from microfilm aperture cards.
- Integration: Integration of an IBM
mainframe based SAP system with a contemporary EDMS. This involved
passing parameters to a file which was then picked up by the UNIX
server and the information used to query the database and return
images and data to the user.
- Migration: Migration of images from
optical disk to HDD, HDD to microfilm, and microfilm to digital.
- Cloud: Development of an integrated
system for the storage, retrieval and presentation of document and
image sets into an online/intranet page-turning environment.
- Specialist Video System: Developed a PC based
video retrieval system for showing engineers sub-sea pipeline
inspection video with simultaneous images of port, starboard and
central camera views. This was coupled with KP survey data extracted
from the survey system and migrated into an MS Access database, for
display adjacent to the footage.
INTERNET
- Design and implementation of a
web based information access system to allow a drill-down approach
to get to data in a tag-driven environment.
- Migration, reconfiguration and
re-engineering of a PHP script accessed MySQL database for a
publishing company's trade directory.
BOOK
- Book: Researched/authored an 8 part
article on document scanning.
- Book: Author of a book on scanning
of all media, including microfilm and photographic.
MICROFILM
- MICROFILM: Creation of a titling
system for micropublishing of step-and-repeat fiche, using line film
techniques and contact printing directly to film.
- MICROFILM: Invention of an
auto-exposure by-pass system to allow a planetary microfilm camera
to take consistently exposed images onto colour microfilm.
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Scanning and image
processing of panoramic negatives from a hand-built camera. (As the
film frames were 10 inches in length, they were beyond the capacity
for a normal photo-lab to cater for.)
-
 PHOTOGRAPHY:
Capture of glass plate photo images into digital format.
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Preservation of glass
plate images to both film and microfilm based media.
- VIDEO: Conversion of 8mm Super 8
film to DV (digital) format. This involved the scanning of all 8mm
frames, passing them through a digital clean-up process,
re-assembling the film as a sequence of digital images, and output
to DV tape and digital HDD storage formats.
- PRESERVATION/CONSERVATION:
Researched/wrote a multi-part article on the use of microfilm as a
long-term secure and non-technology dependent storage medium with
special emphasis on colour microfilm and the fact that both colour
and mono film is now certified as archivally permanent for 500
years.
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