Academic discovery and library catalogues

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:24:25 +0000

A slightly disjointed post. The useful Librarytecholgy.org website by Marshall Breeding announced the eXtensibleCataloge project has just released a number of webcasts in preparation for their software release later this year.

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eXtensible Cataloge webcast screenshot

I’ve come across this project before, and put a little simply, is in the same field as the Next Generation Catalogues such as Primo, Aquabrowser and VuFind.

“Sitting on a gold mine” – improving provision and services for learners by aggregating and using ‘learner behaviour data’

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:03:16 +0000

I’m at a workshop today called “Sitting on a gold mine” – improving provision and services for learners by aggregating and using ‘learner behaviour data’ (it rolls off the tongue!), which is part of a wider JISC TILE project looking at, in a nutshell, how we can use data collected from user and user activity to provide useful services, and the issues and challenges involved (and some Library 2.0 concepts as well). As ever, these are just my notes, at some points I took more notes than others, there will be mistakes and I will badly misquote the speakers, please keep this in mind.

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Academic discovery and library catalogues

“Sitting on a gold mine” – improving provision and services for learners by aggregating and using ‘learner behaviour data’