Hi Michael
Yes, I think the data mining techniques you suggest are going to be part of
the solution but I must stress that the human element and 'community
services' needs to be factored in. Data mining and AI approaches are likely
to fall flat without it, so I think we need to think of the wider 'system'
that techniques like data mining will sit inside.
I would imagine the academic Information Retrieval community (there are some
folks in Glasgow and Strathclyde who are into IR) would like this problem
area - they maybe already into it for all I know. They would be
useful to contact. It's not really my area (I'm more into education and
instructional design and media design) but I attended one of their
conferences in 2000 and it was very useful for me (and a bit mind blowing!).
The web site for this is still up at:
http://www.itim.mi.cnr.it/Eventi/essir2000/graph/index.htm
This might give you an idea what they are into.
The IR community has got a really interesting mix of computer science and
library people. They have a SIG in the ACM.
AS Steve Jeyes points out the IEEE are interested in this area as well and
they are discussing it in the Learning Technology Committee according to
their newsletter - so that might be a god area to check out.
> John Casey
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Harris [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 December 2003 01:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Thesauri and authority files for keywords
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:23:34PM -0000, John Casey {DAICE} wrote:
> Hi Steve
>
> I think the role of 'subjective metadata' and 'recommender systems' is
going
> to be what makes e-learning collections fly - this has also been called
> 'secondary metadata'. The trick is how to do it - I think some of the
> e-commerce solutions (reviews, help notes, tech discussion boards etc)
give
> part of the possible solution, but I think there has to be some human
agency
> involved - if you like a librarian or community facilitator with some
> quality assurance built in as well.
[snip]
> Cheers
> John
Hi John,
I may have misinterpreted your comment, ignore me if I have :)
A 'recommender system' such as used by amazon is an automatic system,
separate to the reviews etc. It uses data mining techniques to,
hopefully, return better results, ie books you might want to buy are
automatically presented to you, based on your behaviour and the
behaviour of people 'like' you. When searching repositories for
learning objects maybe the same sort of system can be used to return
'better' learning objects. This is something I hope to be exploring
over the next few years. I'm interested in hearing if anyone knows of
any work done in this area in regard to learning objects.
cheers, Michael
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Michael Harris
Associate Lecturer Operations Manager &
School of Computer Science Courseware Co-ordinator
RMIT University CS&IT AVU Project
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