Whilst chatting to one of the delegates at yesterday's "Gaining business intelligence from user activity data" event (my Powerpoint slides can be grabbed from here) about non & low-usage of library services/resources, I began wondering how that relates to final grades. In the previous blog post, we've seen that there appears to be evidence of [...]
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ILI 2009 Presentation
I really struggled to shoehorn everything I wanted to talk about during my ILI 2009 presentation into the slides, so this blog post goes into a bit more depth than I'll probably talk about… slide 1 & 2 I'm still in two minds about whether or not the word "exploit" has too many negative connotations, [...]
Simple API for JISC MOSAIC Project Developer Competition data
For those of you interested in the developer competition being run by the JISC MOSAIC Project, I've put together a quick & dirty API for the available data sets. If it's easier for you, you can use this API to develop your competition entry rather than working with the entire downloaded data set. edit (31/Jul/2009): [...]
Peaks and troughs in borrowing
A good couple of years ago, I blogged about "lending paths", but we've not really progressed things any further since then. I still like the idea that you can somehow predict books that people might/should borrow and also when you might get a sudden rush of demand on a particular title. Anyway, whilst heading back [...]
Presentation to the TILE Project meeting in London
About 90 minutes ago, I had the pleasure of doing a short presentation to the JISC TILE Project's "Sitting on a gold mine" workshop in London. Unfortunately I wasn't able to present in person, so we had a go doing it all via a video conferencing link. As far as I can tell, it seemed [...]
Free book usage data from the University of Huddersfield
I'm very proud to announce that Library Services at the University of Huddersfield has just done something that would have perhaps been unthinkable a few years ago: we've just released a major portion of our book circulation and recommendation data under an Open Data Commons/CC0 licence. In total, there's data for over 80,000 titles derived [...]
Coming soon, to a blog near here…
Okay — I'm the first to admit I don't blog enough… I still haven't even blogged about how great Mashed Library 2008 was (luckily other attendees have already blogged about it!) Anyway, unless I get run over by a bus, later on this week I'm going to post something fairly big — well, it's about [...]
Stuck on a train
The joys of free wifi slightly make up for the fact that I'm stuck on a train that's going nowhere fast — the East Coast main line is suffering long delays due to the train which was ahead of mine managing to damage and bring down the overhead power lines :-S Today was the first [...]