I certainly think that libraries could collaborate on the circ-based
recommendations. The advantage that bX has is that it is built on the
work done by Herbert and Johan at Los Alamos and I can attest that this
if far above my skills range. Does anyone know if their analysis
algorithms are available?
- Michele
On 6/30/2010 12:18 PM, Cindy Harper wrote:
> 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-----
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:
>> NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michele Newberry
>> Sent: 30 June 2010 16:50
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> 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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