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IILI2009: Exploiting Usage Data
The document discusses how the University of Huddersfield Library utilizes borrowing data to enhance user experience and change borrowing habits. It emphasizes the importance of capturing and releasing usage data to allow for better recommendations and increased engagement with library resources. Final recommendations include capturing comprehensive usage data and encouraging its reuse through open data licenses.
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IILI2009: Exploiting Usage Data
- 1. I Know WhatYou Borrowed Last Summer Exploiting Usage Data in an Academic Library Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield, UK [email_address] www.daveyp.com
- 2. Preamble More informationabout this presentation… daveyp.com/ili2009/ Please remix and reuse these slides! creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Have you remembered to switch your phone on? please feel free take photos, record audio, live blog, tweet (@daveyp, #ili2009), etc
- 3. University of HuddersfieldLibrary Medium sized UK University 20,000 students and 2,000 staff Library holds over 240,000 books Current LMS/ILS Horizon installed in 1996 over 3 million borrowing (“circ”) transactions stored in the DB
- 4. Suggestions based oncirc data “people who borrowed this…”
- 5. Borrowing profile averageloans per month average number of book loans per month
- 6. Feature usage “peoplewho borrowed this…” average number of clicks per month on “people who borrowed this” suggestions
- 7. Getting personal! suggestionsfor what to borrow next
- 8. Building better newbook lists course specific RSS feeds
- 9. The impact onborrowing range of stock borrowed per year number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year (2009 figure is predicted) ? borrowing suggestions added to catalogue at start of 2006
- 10. The impact onborrowing average number of books borrowed average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year (2009 predicted)
- 11. Catalogue keyword searcheskeyword cloud eye candy…
- 12. Catalogue keyword searchesguided searches
- 13. http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/ prompted bythe JISC Tile Project aggregated usage data for 2 million circulation transactions, covering around 80,000 book titles recommendation data for over 37,000 titles simple XML format Open Data Commons / CC0 licence Library usage data release “if you love something, set it free…”
- 14. Data released on12th Dec 2008… … 2 days later, Patrick Murray-John at University of Mary Washington converts the data to RDF! Patrick’s blog post at http://bit.ly/noJD Talis podcast at http://bit.ly/z6yjF Library usage data release “if you love something, set it free…”
- 15. Library usage datarelease “if you love something, set it free…”
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- 18. JISC MOSAIC Projecthttp://bit.ly/jiscmosaic
- 19. JISC MOSAIC Projectdeveloper competition
- 20. JISC MOSAIC Projectdeveloper competition
- 21. JISC MOSAIC Projectdeveloper competition
- 22. In summary… AtHuddersfield, exploited usage data is helping to change borrowing habits Are libraries prepared to let go of their data? “Raw data now!” – Sir Tim Berners-Lee TED speech, March 2009 (http://bit.ly/q9sR)
- 23. Final recommendations… Captureas much usage data as you can …even if you don’t have a use for it now! Whenever possible, release aggregated or anonymised versions of the data try to use a Creative Commons Zero or Open Data Commons licence to encourage re-use don’t be a “data hugger”!