Hi folks
Long time lurker here!
I'm very proud to announce that the University of Huddersfield has just released aggregated book usage and recommendation data for over 2 million circulation transactions covering a 13 year period. We've chosen to release it under an Open Data Commons license.
http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/528
One of the reasons for releasing the data is to try and spark a debate about the benefits of usage data, the advantages (or disadvantages) of libraries sharing/aggregating their data, and the barriers which might stop libraries from doing it. This debate will be of interest to the JISC TILE Project in the UK:
http://tinyurl.com/6rpeoc
I'd warmly welcome any comments/questions/abuse that you want to sling my way :-)
If anyone does anything cool with the data or has any suggestions for improvement, please let me know!
warmest regards
Dave Pattern
Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield
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Received on Fri Dec 12 2008 - 11:30:39 EST