Just a little follow on from the previous blog post… Spurred on by comments from Lisa, I'm exploring if we can filter the recommendations so that they become more relevant to students in a specific academic school, or even to students on a specific course, and the initial results look fairly promising Let's look at [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2012’
"People who looked at this thing, also looked at this stuff…"
We've had serendipity suggestions on the OPAC for nearly 7 years now, but they've been based entirely around the physical collection in the library. After Friday's Skype chat to the SPLURGE Hackfest, I got to thinking about how we can hook the e-stuff into the recommendations, so I've spent the weekend gathering data from our [...]
Tweaking the Summon Search Widget code
Summon has a really cool new custom search box building widget that includes the ability to pre-limit a search to a specific discipline (or disciplines). The widget also allows you to pre-select which facets to apply to the search. A question came up on the SummonClients mailing list asking if it was possible to exclude [...]
Hacking 360 Link
A quick plug for Matthew Reidsma's ace blog post about customising 360 Link with jQuery: "jQuery for Customizing Hosted Library Services