The May/June 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine includes an article called
"Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation
System" that may be of interest people on this mailing list. [1]
Specifically, the article describes an "implicit" recommender
services called BibTip. The application sits between a user and the
"catalog" while collecting what gets used by whom and when. Based on
this sort of information, the application makes suggestions for other
items in the "catalog".
One thing I found particularly interesting was that this application
is not necessarily "catalog" specific in that is can be envoked
through a Javascript call in head element of HTML. Again, it is not
about creating a specific application that people come to. Instead,
it is about creating applications that can be integrated and
syndicated to other venues.
[1] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may08/monnich/05monnich.html
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Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
Received on Thu May 15 2008 - 15:21:52 EDT