These sound very interesting. The only problem I see with circ-based or
view-based recommendation engines is that make my "recommendation" of
something that I checked out and found excellent equivalent to something I
checked out and found to be poor. But then, I suppose word-of-mouth would
moderate the number of users choosing the "horrible" items. But we probably
couldn't get scholars to partcipate in an active service such as a ratings
system, or could we?
Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper_at_colgate.edu
315-228-7363
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Pattern <d.c.pattern_at_hud.ac.uk>wrote:
> We've had recommendations ("people who borrowed this...") based on circ
> data in our OPAC since 2005 and it's had a huge (positive) impact on how
> stock circulates and on how many items students borrower per year, e.g.
> http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/bib/415607/cls/
>
> If you're interested in this area, you might want to check out the JISC
> funded MOSAIC Project, which is seeking to get usage data (including
> anonymised circ data) released as Open Data:
> http://www.sero.co.uk/jisc-mosaic.html
>
> Much as I love bX, I do wonder what's stopping libraries from collaborating
> and doing recommendations themselves?
>
> regards
> Dave Pattern
> Library Systems Manager
> University of Huddersfield
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] next "next-generation library catalog"
>
> Look at bX and BibTips:
> http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14580
> http://www.bibtip.org/
>
> - Michele
>
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