Whilst we've not be collecting click stream data before today, we have been collecting data about which keywords are used to locate items. So, when someone clicks on a search result, we've been logging that item and the keyword(s) used for that particular search.
As an example, for this BFI book about "Citizen Kane", if you look at the "search terms" clouds at the foot of the page, you can see that more users who clicked on the book had done a search for the author than for the title:
http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/bib/325166/cls/
Another example -- Anthony Giddens' book on Sociology is one of our most heavily borrowed titles. This book is most likely to be found (or should that be "stumbled across"?) by someone doing a search for "Giddens":
http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/bib/530416/cls/
Although we've been collecting this data, I've yet to think of what useful things we might be able to do with it! Anyone have any suggestions? :-D
Dave
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Oliver Flimm
Sent: 01 July 2010 11:19
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] next "next-generation library catalog"
Hi David,
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:41:03AM +0100, David Pattern wrote:
> It would be fascinating to compare and contrast the two methods :-)
;-)
> I've just tweaked our OPAC to start collecting click data in a similar way to you. If you find a good format for releasing the data as Open Data, let me know and I'll make sure we do the same :-)
>
> When we did some previous work on releasing usage data, I found that roughly 70% of the transactions could be mapped to an item that had an ISBN:
> http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/
I think your format in suggestion_data.xml looks pretty good....
Regards,
Oliver
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