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the circulation module of library management systems (the initial
project focus)
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the ERM (environmental resources management) system/resolver
journal article access
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VLE resource and learning object download
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reading lists (from a variety of institutional sources, without
activity data), which may provide key indicators.
This work builds on the previous JISC TILE project 30 and the work of
David Pattern at the University of Huddersfield, 31 who released over
80,000 titles derived from a pool of just under 3 million circulation
transactions spanning a 13 year period, a major portion of book
circulation and recommendation data, under an Open Data Commons
licence. 32
Pattern commented, 'This isn't about breaching borrower/patron
privacy - the data we've released is thoroughly aggregated and
anonymised. This is about sharing potentially useful data to a much
wider community and attaching as few strings as possible.'
The vision for the next five to ten years
The impetus for change will come from students themselves as the
behaviours and approaches apparent now become more deeply
embedded in subsequent cohorts of entrants and the most positive of
them - the experimentation, networking and collaboration, for example
- are encouraged and reinforced through a school system seeking, in a
reformed curriculum, to place greater emphasis on such dispositions.
(JISC, 2009)
The key for the medium term is to provide Google-like interfaces with
Google-like results; there is a race to provide this through systems such
as Summon, Primo and WorldCat Local, which will all use pre-
harvested data rather than federated searching. WorldCat Local already
provides social-networking tools.
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