Completed work
A selection of our previous work – including recently completed Mimas projects and services
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Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub (LOCAH)
We worked with UKOLN, Eduserv, Talis and OCLC to investigate new ways of opening up data for our users. Our vision was to help researchers uncover more about our history and society, by putting archival and bibliographic data at the heart of the Linked Data Web.
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Intute
Through its Internet Resource Catalogue and Virtual Training Suite tutorials, Intute helped researchers, teachers and students to find credible scholarly information on the web.
Mimas ran Intute until July 2011.
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Intute Informs is a flexible tool that makes it easier for educators to design interactive, bite-sized online tutorials.
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IESR
As the UK's premier catalogue of electronic resources, the IESR offered a gateway to research collections – all accessible through web or machine interfaces using flexible online tools. Mimas ran the service until July 2011.
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The SALT (Surfacing the Academic Long Tail) project from Copac worked with the John Rylands University Library (JRUL) to investigate the possibilities for exploiting circulation activity data to benefit libraries, national shared services and their users. The project tested the hypothesis that library circulation data can be used to support humanities research by surfacing underused 'long tail' library materials through search.
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Publisher & Institutional Repository Usage Statistics 2 (PIRUS2)
This project aimed to specify standards, protocols, an infrastructure and an economic model for the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage of individual articles hosted by repositories, publishers and other bodies.
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CrossFire
As a chemical information resource covering more than 200 years of literature, the CrossFire service at Mimas connected chemists and researchers to two invaluable databases, Beilstein (organic) and Gmelin (inorganic), detailing structures, reactions, facts and references for over 11 million compounds.
Mimas ran the service for 14 years, from 1997–2010. In January 2011, the CrossFire service was replaced by Elsevier Information Systems' new Reaxys service.
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Ariel
Mimas was the UK, Irish and Scandinavian distributor and technical support provider for Infotrieve's Ariel software (distribution ceased at the end of 2010). Ariel is used around the world for fast, economical, high-quality document transmission over the internet.
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Value for money in automatic metadata generation (ViM)
This Intute project aimed to gain a clear understanding of the information search and retrieval needs of Higher Education, to identify opportunities for increasing the effectiveness of metadata and to improve the efficiency of metadata generation processes. It investigated the trade-offs between 'value to user' and 'cost of creation' to establish the optimum point for 'value for money' in metadata generation.
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Mobile Internet Detective
This innovative Intute project helped users develop internet research skills while on the move. It delivered a user-friendly mobile version of the well-respected online tutorial, Internet Detective, already popular with students wanting to learn how to find the best resources on the web.
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Academy Intute Resource Database Integration Project (AIRDIP)
This project enhanced users' experience of Intute and the Higher Education Academy Support Centres, by integrating and developing the resource collections of the Academy Subject Centres. This brought their records into a single database, created and maintained by Intute.
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Discovery to Delivery at EDINA and Mimas (D2D@E&M)
By bringing together discovery services as seamlessly as possible, EDINA and Mimas, together, improved the user experience for UK researchers and students as they searched for and accessed academic content. Funded by JISC (Resource Discovery Programme).
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JISC Information Governance Gateway (JIGG)
The JIGG project facilitated the work of Higher Education practitioners, and others, in the areas of Freedom of Information, Environmental Information Regulations, Data Protection, copyright and records management (Scottish and UK legislation). Funded by JISC (Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme).
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Census Aggregate Information Resource Demonstrator (CAIRD)
This Census Dissemination Unit (CDU) project created a Census Aggregate Information Resource Demonstrator (CAIRD), combining data and metadata from the UK 2001 Census through the use of developments in open-standards structured XML, and XML-aware database systems to create a machine-readable, application-ready online service. Funded by the ESRC Census Programme.
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Shibboleth Access for Resources on the National Grid Service (SARoNGS)
The SARoNGS project from Landmap took the first two components from the Shibboleth Enabled Bridge to Access the National Grid Service (SHEBANGS) project and delivered a standard platform for integrating external resource providers into the National Grid Service (NGS) using Shibboleth authentication mechanisms. Funded by JISC (e-Infrastructure Programme).
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GEMS II: Grid-Enabling Mimas Services: Satellite Images Data
The GEMS II project Grid-enabled the geospatial resources available through the Landmap service, enabling Mimas to work closely with EDINA in terms of acting as a test bed for the outputs of the OGC/Grid Collision Project, particularly enabling users to integrate different spatial datasets in a Grid setting. Funded by JISC (e-Research Programme).
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Shibbolising Mimas eResources (ShiMMeR)
The ShiMMeR project implemented support for Shibboleth across the portfolio of Mimas services. Funded by JISC (Information Environment Core Middleware: Infrastructure Programme).
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Linking International Macro and Micro Data (LIMMD)
The LIMMD project raised awareness and provided training and support for researchers and postgraduate students using the inter-related survey and aggregate data resources provided by the ESDS International service.
The online e-learning materials, originally launched in August 2007, were updated, improved and renamed as Countries and Citizens: Linking international macro and micro data for the re-launch in June 2008. Funded by the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (RDI).
Other completed work
Here is a list of some of our work since 1998:
- Grid-Enabling Mimas Services (GEMS I)
- ConvertGrid
- Fast Track To Support Social Scientists' Understanding of Grid Technologies
- COPAC/Clumps Continuing Technical Cooperation Project (CC-interop)
- Akenti Access to zetoc (A2Z)
- Enhancing the Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census data for learning and teaching (CHCC)
- Seamless Access to Multiple Datasets (SAMD)
- Implementing the DNER Technical Architecture at Mimas (ITAM)
- SPIN!
- Mimas Metadata for the DNER
- FirePower
- TimeWeb
- CABRef
- CABI Publishing Linkage Project
- Digitised Directories Demonstrator Project (DiDiDeP)
- JANUS
- KINDS
- SuperJournal
- Nature Digital Archive
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