Primary funding is provided by the JISC and ESRC. Based at Manchester Computing, The University of Manchester. 1 1 Creating a Metadatabase for MIMAS Services Ross MacIntyre JISC/NSF DLI All Projects Meeting June 2002

Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Service Portfolio

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Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Finding Stuff “If you don’t find it in the Index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.” Consumer’s Guide, Sears, Roebuck & Co 1897.

Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Finding Stuff Want to find stuff, without having to know: name, location and format. Search not just by attribute value, but by mapping onto meaningful term(s)

Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Development Principles Simple, high-level Consistent Open Standards-based Resource discovery Aligned with other work Minimise duplication

Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Technicalities All MIMAS services to be covered –Bibliographic Reference, E-journals, Scientific, Socio-Economic Data, Software, Spatial XML Dublin Core Subject & Type Schemes: –LCSH, UNESCO, Dewey & MIMAS Spatial - Country: ISO3166

Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Access to Metadata Indexed with ‘Cheshire II’ software (As is Archives Hub, RDN & AHDS amongst others) Z39.50 Bath Profile Compliant Web Z Gateway OAI Compliant

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Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Observations Mindset –Resource not Service being described –Service culture vs m2m data Maintenance – CMS & a ‘wiki’ Classification – Subject & Type

Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Chinese encyclopedia: “Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge” Animals are divided into: those that belong to the Emperor, embalmed ones, those that are trained, suckling pigs, mermaids, fabulous ones, stray dogs, those that are included in this classification, those that tremble as if they were mad, innumerable ones, those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, others, those that have just broken a flower vase, those that resemble flies from a distance.

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Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Now what? Enabling mechanism, not a portal –“It’s about more than technology and improving searching” Catherine Grout Who will use? Quality Control Further development

Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July ITAM Project Extend the MIMAS Metadatabase Create Collection Descriptions Open Archive compliance OpenURL implementations SFX trials Usability evaluation

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Insert presentation title here, Location details, 17 July Thank you Don’t forget: MIMAS OPEN FORUM 2002 Thursday 4 July To view the programme in detail and book your place, please visit