2010/11 has been a busy year for Mimas. From Linked Data to meaning-based search, we’ve worked on a range of research and development activities - exploiting new technologies to meet the ever-changing needs of higher and further education.

Our Annual Review gives us an opportunity to reflect, and highlight how our services and projects are bringing real efficiencies and benefits to the community.

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Together with JISC Collections we’re launching two major new resources that offer UK researchers an easy way to discover valuable content across what were previously separate archives.

Part of the new JISC eCollections service, JISC Historic Books and JISC Journal Archives bring together over 350,000 books, and 600 journals, using meaning based search to help users serendipitously find related materials through simple, integrated interfaces.

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Linked Data can open up new routes into information, giving researchers the opportunity to discover and use a range of valuable research collections.

Through the Linking Lives project, we’re working with Linked Data from the Archives Hub to create a new biographical interface. By combining archival descriptions with other data sources, we’ll be helping researchers to make new connections between people, places, times and events.

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For students accustomed to an information-rich, online world, working with rare books and manuscripts can be an unfamiliar experience.

Together with colleagues at The University of Manchester, we’re using Augmented Reality to bring special collections to life by surrounding original materials with digital online content.

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