Library 2.0 and JISC MOSAIC Project Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield, UK [email_address]

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Please remix and reuse these slides!

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Web 2.0 in the catalogue

Background General unhappiness with vendor product “In-house” enhancements to the existing OPAC… user suggestions from surveys “Web 2.0” inspired features borrowing good ideas from other web sites new features launched with no/low publicity “perpetual beta”

General unhappiness with vendor product

“In-house” enhancements to the existing OPAC…

user suggestions from surveys

“Web 2.0” inspired features

borrowing good ideas from other web sites

new features launched with no/low publicity

“perpetual beta”

Spell checker All OPAC keyword searches were monitored over a six month period Approx 23% of searches gave zero results 74 people entered “renew” as a keyword(!) Users expect suggestions and prompts, not “dead end” pages

All OPAC keyword searches were monitored over a six month period

Approx 23% of searches gave zero results

74 people entered “renew” as a keyword(!)

Users expect suggestions and prompts, not “dead end” pages

Spell checker

Keyword cloud

Catalogue keyword searches guided searches

Suggestions based on circ data “people who borrowed this…”

Getting personal! suggestions for what to borrow next

Building better new book lists course specific RSS feeds

the impact

Borrowing profile average loans per month average number of book loans per month

Feature usage “people who borrowed this…” average number of clicks per month on “people who borrowed this” suggestions

The impact on borrowing range of stock borrowed per year number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year (2009 figure is predicted) ? borrowing suggestions added to catalogue at start of 2006

The impact on borrowing average number of books borrowed average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year (2009 predicted)

Learning 2.0

Learning 2.0 Charlotte and Mecklenburg County

25 Things @ Huddersfield

Open Data

http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/ prompted by the JISC Tile Project aggregated usage data for 2 million circulation transactions, covering around 80,000 book titles recommendation data for over 37,000 titles simple XML format Open Data Commons / CC0 licence Library usage data release “if you love something, set it free…”

http://library.hud.ac.uk/usagedata/

prompted by the JISC Tile Project

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

recommendation data for over 37,000 titles

simple XML format

Open Data Commons / CC0 licence

Data released on 12th Dec 2008… … 2 days later, Patrick Murray-John at University of Mary Washington converted the data into a semantic version (RDF) Patrick’s blog post at http://bit.ly/noJD Talis podcast at http://bit.ly/z6yjF Library usage data release “if you love something, set it free…”

Data released on 12th Dec 2008…

… 2 days later, Patrick Murray-John at University of Mary Washington converted the data into a semantic version (RDF)

Patrick’s blog post at http://bit.ly/noJD

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

Library usage data release “if you love something, set it free…”

MOSAIC Project

JISC MOSAIC Project http://bit.ly/jiscmosaic

JISC MOSAIC Project developer competition

JISC MOSAIC Project Sean Hannan (US)

JISC MOSAIC Project Andrew Isherwood (Aberystwyth)

JISC MOSAIC Project Tony Hirst (Open University)

JISC MOSAIC Project Alex Parker (Southampton Uni)

MOSAIC Demonstrator

summary

Final thoughts… Serendipity is helping change borrowing habits How do we encourage staff to explore new ideas and technologies? Are libraries prepared to let go of their data and share it?

Serendipity is helping change borrowing habits

How do we encourage staff to explore new ideas and technologies?

Are libraries prepared to let go of their data and share it?