Published papers in the MIND contex are now available

Since the consortium consists of academic partners who are very active in research, the research exploitation direction will concentrate on the integration of the results of the project with other current and future projects aimed at improving access to information resources. Partners are involved in a number of projects whose research objectives are related to those of MIND. Papers will be delivered at the key Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries conferences (e.g. ACM-SIGIR, CIKM, ECDL, and ACM-DL) and submitted to leading journals (e.g. Information Processing and Management, Journal of the ASIS, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Information Retrieval, and the International Journal of Digital Libraries). A workshop will also be held at the end of the project to demonstrate the results of the project to other academics.

The second approach will be pursued through promoting the availability of results to the information industry sector, rather than through direct commercialisation,. Nevertheless the commercialisation departments of the respective institutes will have access to the work carried out in MIND. These departments are responsible for negotiating licensing and partnership agreements with commercial organisations and have a proven track of success in this task. Other activities aimed at promoting the availability of results to the information industry sector will include publishing overview articles in selected trade and practitioner magazines, talks given at corporate research laboratories, science parks, etc. The end-of-project workshop will also be aimed at potential end-users and potential business partners.

In order to highlight the availability of results the consortium will establish a web-site (ie. this one) that will provide public access to selected deliverables including prototype tools, technical overviews and test results. This will ensure that researchers and potential business partners will benefit from the activities of the consortium as well as providing a channel for feedback on system functionality and effectiveness. The consortium co-ordinator (USG) will be responsible for setting up the web-site and for liaising with partners to populate the site with appropriate technical and promotional material. It is anticipated that the results of the project will be of interest to a number of businesses and users who are involved in the generation, communication and exploitation of information. These include standards bodies, portal and vortal operators and other infomediaries, organisations involved in digitisation projects, and other research projects involved in resource discovery and identification.