The Research Portal is a stand-alone tool open to both signed-in and guest users.

It allows to find music makers who are on the Creative Passport and view their public profiles. If the music makers have also included contact information on their profile, then Research Portal users can get in touch with Music Makers directly.

The Research portal runs in the browser on either desktop or mobile devices and is publicly accessible.

The research portal can be accessed publicly at: https://app.creativepassport.net/search

https://app.creativepassport.net/search

Technology

The research portal is build on the Elastic Search service provided through Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• ElasticSearch is used in the Creative Passport API code. https://github.com/creative-passport/creativepassportapi
• The current search endpoint is /public/1.0/search/basic
• The passport data is indexed in ElasticSearch whenever the user makes a change to their passport and makes fields public/private.
• Only persona data shared on a public page is included in the index. When enabling the public page there is a preference which allows the user to disable indexing their public page in the search index.

Re-Design

• The research portal is currently being re-designed both in terms of search capacity as well as its visual style and look