Hello Mathew,
Absolutely.
I'd point at a couple of JISC-funded projects in HE library data that
explored doing just that (disclaimer: my own institution contributed
circulation data to both projects):
[1] MOSAIC ("Making Our Shared Activity Intelligence Count"):
http://www.sero.co.uk/jisc-mosaic.html
[2] SALT2 / Copac Activity Data:
http://copac.ac.uk/innovations/activity-data/
Other people will probably have examples of other projects.
Unfortunately this re-use of data (locally, or shared across
institutions) still doesn't seem to have made it into the mainstream of
commercial LMS provision in Higher Education (if anywhere), nor does it
seem likely to in the near future.
Regards,
Paul
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Good afternoon everyone
When library users search for items via the library catalogue, would it
not make for a superior experience if the retrieved results were
informed by the vast amounts of circulation history data that library
management systems collect? So for instance, results could be ranked
according popularity rather than publication date. Circulation history
data could also identify relationships between items that may not be
apparent from catalogue records alone, so this too could inform the
results retrieved.
I work in a small hospital library and I can't claim to be much of an
expert when it comes to library management systems, so I was wondering
if anybody on here knew if Talis, Heritage, etc. are developing their
products with such issues in mind?
This issue was raised in a book I recently read (The Atlas of new
librarianship by R. David Lankes - kindly lent to me by the Library &
Knowledge Service @ Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust) which proceeds to
make the wider argument that since the success of companies like Google,
Facebook and Amazon has been founded on their ability to make use of the
data supplied by their own customers, that libraries need to do the
same.
Kind regards
Mathew Stone
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