Library 2.0 and JISC MOSAIC Project

Dave Pattern

Library Systems Manager

University of Huddersfield, UK

d.c.pattern@hud.ac.uk

Preamble

• These slides are available at…– http://slideshare.net/daveyp

• Please remix and reuse these slides!– creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

Web 2.0in 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”

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

Spell checker

Keyword cloud

Catalogue keyword searchesguided searches

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

Getting personal!suggestions for what to borrow next

Building better new book listscourse specific RSS feeds

the impact

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number of unique titles (bib#) borrowed per calendar year (2009 figure is predicted)

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The impact on borrowingrange of stock borrowed per year

borrowing suggestions added to catalogue at start of 2006

average number of books borrowed per active borrower per calendar year (2009 predicted)

The impact on borrowingaverage number of books borrowed

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Learning 2.0

Learning 2.0Charlotte 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…”

• 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…”

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

MOSAICProject

JISC MOSAIC Projecthttp://bit.ly/jiscmosaic

JISC MOSAIC Projectdeveloper competition

JISC MOSAIC ProjectSean Hannan (US)

JISC MOSAIC ProjectAndrew Isherwood (Aberystwyth)

JISC MOSAIC ProjectTony Hirst (Open University)

JISC MOSAIC ProjectAlex 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?