The Famous 5 Worked Examples from MIMAS

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The Famous 5Worked Examples from MIMAS

• Ross MacIntyre
• Collection Description Briefing Day
• 14th May 2002

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But Im a Service Provider
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Service Portfolio
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ITAM Project

• Extend the MIMAS Metadatabase
• Create Collection Descriptions
• Open Archive compliance
• OpenURL implementations
• SFX trials
• Usability evaluation

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ITAM CLD Principles

• Simple, high-level
• Consistent
• Open Standards-based
• Resource discovery
• Aligned with other work
• Minimise duplication

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Finding Stuff

• If you dont find it in the Index,
• look very carefully through the
• entire catalogue.
• Consumers Guide,
• Sears, Roebuck Co 1897.

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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)

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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

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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

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Demo
Technology patience permitting
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Observations

• Mindset
• Collection not Service being described
• Service culture vs m2m data
• Maintenance CMS a wiki
• Classification Subject Type

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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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Now what?

• Enabling mechanism, not a portal
• Its about more than technology and improving
  searching Catherine Grout
• Who will use?
• Quality Control
• Further development

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Thank you

• Dont 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/