Example Lotus Domino sites created by Tagish

The following is a selection of some of the internet sites or site elements, driven by Lotus Domino and created by Tagish. The purpose of this page is to give organisations contemplating the development of internet or intranet facilities in Domino an idea of the sorts of things which have gone before. Sadly, the examples on this page do not convey a full impression; intranet versions of these pages, and Notes Client views of data in the Domino database can be used within an organisation to provide very much more information than is conveyed to the general internet user. A couple of links are given to some of the sites listed below; necessity for two links arises out of the use of frames on target sites. The second link we give is normally given in the format "go here and then press this".

Accommodation

• Oxford's Accommodation database
  Oxford City Council provide comprehensive details of all Accommodation in the city; the application is accessible from the Oxford website by following the Accomodation menu item. The Domino server is hosted at Tagish, and Oxford personnel maintain the data in a Notes application on a local PC, replicating the data up to tagish via the internet.

Company Websites

• Tagish
  Most of our own site is Domino driven, although there are areas of exception. From the home page, all menu links on the left hand menu are to Domino databases.

Completely Domino websites

• Alnwick Castle
  Northumberland Estates commissioned this splendid website to promote Alnwick Castle and the work of the Estate.

• Bedfordshire Online
  Bedfordshire County Counil's Bedfordshire Online is completely in Domino. There is a single Java applet on the site; even this lives within a Domino database.

• Newcastle City Council
  Tagish staff assisted in the production of Newcastle's website. The City has, however, developed a strong internet team which now has sole responsibility for the site. Check out whether they're working hard enough via their webcam.

Education

• Nottinghamshire Education - Schools A-Z& Search
  Nottinghamshire also have a Schools A-Z and a Search for Schools domino application, normally found within the Schools Index section of their site. Information is maintained locally via a simple interface, and served remotely from Tagish in Alnwick.

Events

• Events Demonstration Database
  The Events demonstration database includes a data submission systems. The general user can add a new event, which is not published until authorised. Authorised users - those with the right password - can enter an event and have it published instantly.

Information Provision

• Computer Information Centre
  The Computer Information Centre disseminates a moderately large amount of current data on the IT Industry, and is entirely Domino driven. The content is held in multiple databases. Data in the system is maintained in a couple of locations via Notes clients, which replicate with the server via the internet to keep it up to date. The system also has intranet components which enable it to be deployed on networks which, for security reasons, are unconnected to the internet.

• European Telematics Horizontal Observatory Service
  ETHOS provides information on the European telematics market to researchers of European Union's DG-XIII Telematics Application Programme. It is composed of a few tens of Domino databases.

Integrated Local Authority Sites

• Bedfordshire County Council
  Bedfordshire Online, the County's Internet presence, is produced entirely within the Notes/Domino environment. Domino enables users at Bedfordshire to publish and maintain information without any requirement to understand the intricacies of HTML and link maintenance. Of special interest (we think) are such things as the search engine, with its very effective way of categorising returned information according to the database in which the information is stored.

Legal Services

• Nottinghamshire Community Legal Service Pioneer
  On 11 December 1998 the Lord Chancellor announced that five local authorities were to become 'Pioneers' for the Community Legal Service. Nottinghamshire County Council is one of the chosen pioneers, and commissioned a Domino website to assist in sharing information between the Pioneer partners.

Local Authority Partnerships

• Norfolk & Waveny Information Area
  The Norfolk & Waveney Information Area is a partnership of authorities, the independent websites of which are linked together using Domino technology. The central idea behind the original NWIA interface was to provide a means by which citizens ouf the county could locate a council service, whether or not they were certain which council provided it. The scope of NWIA has now been extended to the development of other databases which will be applied across all of the authorities. The NWIA concept has also been adopted by other Counties.

Membership websites

• direct.link from the Central IT Unit
  In support of the 1996 white paper government.direct the Central IT Unit commissioned a direct.link website through which it could communicate with local government officers active in information society developments.

News, Newsletters, Press Releases

• Great Yarmouth District Council News
  Great Yarmouth also use Domino to publish news, in a similar fashion to Norwich.

• South Cambridgeshire District Council News
  South Cambridgeshire have a link to their Domino News application on every single page of site.

Project Reporting

• Central IT Unit Year 2000 database
  The Central IT Unit's Year 2000 compliance reporting database is in Domino.

Other (non-Tagish) Domino databases

• Central Office of Information Press Releases
  The COI have, from the start of 1999, established a Domino server to disseminate press releases on the internet.

• Department of Health Circulars on the Internet (COIN)
  CCTA provide the Department of Health with COIN, a Domino application enabling circulars to be circulated. We understand there to be a range of documents in COIN, including Adobe-PDF, text, scanned and other formats.

• Department of Health Publications on the Internet (POINT)
  CCTA provide the Department of Health with POINT, a Domino application enabling documents of all sorts to be disseminated via the DoH website. The DoH also has a Domino database called Cod, which has to do with EU Lists of Approved Third Country Establishments (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish).

• Direct Access Government from the Better Regulation Group
  CCTA provide a Direct Access Government Domino application to the Better Regulation Unit of the Cabinet Office. The application provides information on government regulations; so far as we can establish, the database holds a variety of text and other document formats.

• Notes.Net
  One would hope Lotus themselves would use Domino on their own website. They do. Phew.