1. Primary funding is provided by the JISC and ESRC. Based at Manchester Computing, The University of Manchester. 1 ‘The Famous 5’ Worked Examples from MIMAS Ross MacIntyre Collection Description Briefing Day 14 th May 2002

2. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 But I’m a Service Provider…

3. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 Service Portfolio

4. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 ITAM Project Extend the MIMAS Metadatabase Create Collection Descriptions Open Archive compliance OpenURL implementations SFX trials Usability evaluation

5. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 ITAM CLD Principles Simple, high-level Consistent Open Standards-based Resource discovery Aligned with other work Minimise duplication

6. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 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.

7. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 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)

8. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 The Initial Five Services 5 MIMAS services of different type –Bibliographic Reference, e-journals, Chemical Database, Economic Data, Statistical Software RSLP CLD Schema XML Dublin Core Subject & Type Schemes: –LCSH, UNESCO, Dewey & MIMAS Spatial - Country: ISO3166

9. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 Access to CLDs Indexed with ‘Cheshire II’ software (As is Archives Hub, RDN & AHDS amongst others) Z39.50 Bath Profile Compliant Web Z Gateway OAI Compliant

10. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002

11. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 Demo Technology & patience permitting…

12. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 Observations Mindset –Collection not Service being described –Service culture vs m2m data Maintenance – CMS & a ‘wiki’ Classification – Subject & Type

13. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 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.

14. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002

15. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 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

16. The Famous 5, MIMAS 14 th May 2002 Thank you Don’t forget: MIMAS OPEN FORUM 2002 Thursday 4 July To view the programme in detail and book your place, please visit http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news/mof2002/