Dear All
Apologies for responding to the list with a blatant "plug", but I think it's relevant (albeit tangentially) to this topic.
We at Ex Libris have been mining usage data for quite a while now, to provide a scholarly article recommender ("people who read this article also read...") service called "bX".
Please let me know if you would like more information about it.
Kind regards,
Robert
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From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Claire Eskriett
Sent: 18 December 2012 16:01
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Subject: Re: Using circulation history data to inform library catalogue search results
Hi
Capita are developing a recommendations service for Prism based on circ data which I understand is pretty imminent, a kind of 'people who borrowed this borrowed that' idea. I'm sure someone with more details will be along soon!
Claire
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Sent: 18 December 2012 15:42
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Subject: Re: Using circulation history data to inform library catalogue search results
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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From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mathew Stone
Sent: 18 December 2012 15:15
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Subject: Using circulation history data to inform library catalogue search results
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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