Enables data collection / indexing or other processing operations to be modularized.

The data collection / processing framework is based on two XML configurable interface classes: ICollectionGateway which are implemented by Data Producers and the IGatewayOutputProcessor which are implemented by Data Consumers.

Data Producers acquire data from some source and transform it to an RTI IResultSet. This enables reuse of other framework components such as Search Sources, Entity extraction tools, Result Formatters and Result Matchers to be used in Data Collection processing pipelines.