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Recommendations Improve the Search ExperienceProject Outline
Richard Nurse
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/rise
Why?
“The search engine on the library is not very user friendly. I had to find a specific article recommended in the text and it took several attempts to locate it.”
“The search facility is poor and doesn’t find stuff that is supposed to be there”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_lumb/3921968993/sizes/z/in/photostream
New search system
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscimages/435135071/sizes/m/in/photostream/
New generation Discovery System from EBSCO
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davepattern/5808712333/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Could we do more?
“That recommender systems can enhance the student
experience in new generation e-resource discovery services”
Recommendations Improve the Search Experience?
Recommendations Improve the Search Experience?
Can you use search data to make recommendations?
Are recommendations useful in Discovery systems?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davepattern/3473326634/sizes/z/in/photostream/
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/rise
JISC funded project
February – July 2011
One of eight projects [list at http://bit.ly/gwCmNS]
JISC Activity Data Programme
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zerimski/5215633183/sizes/z/in/photostream/
"Every day I wake up and ask, 'how can I flow data better, manage data better, analyse data better?"
Rollin Ford, the CIO of Wal-Mart
Why activity data?
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/rise
Loans Holds
Computer bookings
Library access
Library activity data
Loans Holds
Computer bookings
Library access
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Library activity data
Library systems environment
Scope of the project
Search interface
Algorithms & recommender code
Activity data
EZProxy
SFX
EDS
VLE
websitebookmarklet
What data is RISE using?
• Remote host • Date/Time• Oucu• Request• Status• Size of response• Referrer• User agent• Session
So what is in the EZProxy logs?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vixon/116447718/sizes/m/in/photostream/
\"0\"|||\"137.108.143.168\"|||20110115235421|||\“nn1234\"|||\"GET http://libezproxy.open.ac.uk:80/connect?Session=st3ShtizgtrS7tU5&url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=edslive&scope=site&type=0&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&cli1=FT1&clv1=Y&authtype=ip&group=VCStud&bquery=War%20Against%20the%20Panthers HTTP/1.1\“|||302|||0|||\http://library.open.ac.uk/\|||\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13\"|||\"t3ShtizgtrS7tU5\"
So what is in the EZProxy logs?
\"0\"|||\"137.108.143.168\"|||20110115235421|||\“nn1234\"|||\"GET http://libezproxy.open.ac.uk:80/connect?Session=st3ShtizgtrS7tU5&url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=edslive&scope=site&type=0&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&cli1=FT1&clv1=Y&authtype=ip&group=VCStud&bquery=War%20Against%20the%20Panthers HTTP/1.1\“|||302|||0|||\http://library.open.ac.uk/\|||\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13\"|||\"t3ShtizgtrS7tU5\"
date and time
So what is in the EZProxy logs?
\"0\"|||\"137.108.143.168\"|||20110115235421|||\“nn1234\"|||\"GET http://libezproxy.open.ac.uk:80/connect?Session=st3ShtizgtrS7tU5&url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=edslive&scope=site&type=0&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&cli1=FT1&clv1=Y&authtype=ip&group=VCStud&bquery=War%20Against%20the%20Panthers HTTP/1.1\“|||302|||0|||\http://library.open.ac.uk/\|||\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13\"|||\"t3ShtizgtrS7tU5\"
User name
So what is in the EZProxy logs?
\"0\"|||\"137.108.143.168\"|||20110115235421|||\“nn1234\"|||\"GET http://libezproxy.open.ac.uk:80/connect?Session=st3ShtizgtrS7tU5&url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=edslive&scope=site&type=0&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&cli1=FT1&clv1=Y&authtype=ip&group=VCStud&bquery=War%20Against%20the%20Panthers HTTP/1.1\“|||302|||0|||\http://library.open.ac.uk/\|||\"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13\"|||\"t3ShtizgtrS7tU5\"
Request
So what is in the EZProxy logs?
RISE database
RISE database
user type | course code(s)
EZProxy
CIRCE
RISE database
People on course ‘A’ viewed resource ‘B’People who looked at resource ‘C’ also
looked at resource ‘D’
What can the data tell us?
Course recommendation
Relationship recommendation
Which are the most popular resources
This resource is being used by people studying this course
ISSNs DOI
Article information
Subject terms
But what isn’t there?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevharb/5466661946/sizes/z/in/photostream/
user type | course code(s)
Bibliographic data matching
EZProxy
CIRCE
So how do you improve your data?
EDS Crossref
So what about collecting more data?
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/rise
http://library.open.ac.uk/rise www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/rise/
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=library.open.ac.uk/rise/google_gadget/risesearch.xml
user type | course code(s)
Bibliographic data matching
Searches in RISE
EZProxy
CIRCE
RISE
So how do you improve your data?
EDS Crossref
RISE database
People on course ‘A’ viewed resource ‘B’
People who looked at resource ‘C’ also looked at resource ‘D’
People who searched for subject ‘E’ looked at resource ‘F’
What can the data tell us?
Course recommendation
Search recommendation
Relationship recommendation
People are looking at resources on this subjectSubject data
This resource is being used by people studying this course
Resource management
Getting a recommendation
Getting a recommendation
User A Module A123
Resource BRV=14
Views
User C Module A123
Resource BRV=15
Recommended Resource BRV=16
Views +1
User C Module A123
Resource BRV=17
Rate Useful +1
User C Module A123
Resource BRV=14
Rate Not Useful -2
Resource BRV=15
Views +1
Added a privacy policy to RISE, EDS and SFX interfaces
Privacy and opt-out URL
http://library.open.ac.uk/rise/?page=privacy
Data Protection and privacy
Open Data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/okfn/6262973028/sizes/z/in/photostream/
What next?
• Google Gadget search tool• Recommendations database• MACON• Learning Analytics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shandrew/2102808886/sizes/m/in/photostream/
What next?
•EZProxy data
•Use other data sources
•Search terms
•Need more data
•License restrictions on metadata
Findings and lessons learnt
Resources
Blog: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/RISE
Code: http://code.google.com/p/rise-project/source/browse/trunk/rise/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/madeleinerobertson/5612180756/sizes/z/in/photostream/