I Know What You Borrowed Last Summer…

Dave Pattern, Library Systems ManagerUniversity of Huddersfield

d.c.pattern@hud.ac.uk

Preamble

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3.0

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www.guardian.co.uk/money/2005/sep/27/ethicalmoney.lifeandhealth

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1572626.ece

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Data collected

• Circulation transactions• OPAC

– keywords used for searches– items viewed

• OpenURL resolver requests• Access Control• E-resource logins and usage• …and anything else we can think of!

Keyword cloud

Keyword cloud

Average number of clicks per month

Keyword suggestions

Borrowing suggestions

Course specific new book lists

Personalised suggestions

Borrowing profile

Average book loans per month (2002-2008)

Borrowing suggestions

Average number of clicks per month

Borrowing range profile

Number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year

recommendation features added to OPAC at start of 2006

Books per active borrower

Average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year

recommendation features added to OPAC at start of 2006

E-journal data (alpha)

Item usage

Non & low usage analysis

Google Analytics

Data visualisations

Keyword search visualisations

Open Data

Linked data• “There are data in every aspect of our lives,

every aspect of work and pleasure, and it's not just about the number of places where data comes, it's about connecting it together. And when you connect data together, you get power in a way that doesn't happen just with the web, with documents. You get this really huge power out of it. So, we're at the stage now where we have to do this.”

- Sir Tim Berners-Lee (TED Conference, 2009) http://tinyurl.com/bxua4r

Usage data release

• Prompted by the JISC Tile Project• http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/

– aggregated data for 2 million circulation transactions, covering around 80,000 titles

– recommendation data for over 37,000 titles

– simple XML format– Open Data Commons / CC0 licence

No strings attached

• CC0– “…a legal tool for waiving as many

rights as legally possible, worldwide”

• Open Data Commons– “…a philosophy and practice requiring

that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control”

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0http://www.opendatacommons.org

Usage data release

• Released on 12th Dec– converted to RDF by Patrick Murray-John

at University of Mary Washington 2 days later!

– Talis podcast at http://bit.ly/z6yjF

What next?

• What are the barriers to releasing/sharing data…– technical, logistical, moral, political,

institutional, privacy …?

• What are the benefits…– better business intelligence for librarians– creation of innovative new channels– enrichment of existing channels– end-user empowerment & personalisation

…?

JISC Mosaic Project

• Collecting usage data from multiple academic libraries, including…– Lincoln University– University of Sussex– University of Dundee– University of Wolverhampton

Thank you!

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