Spring 2006 DLF Forum: Melvyl Recommender Project, 49

3 April, 2006

For further exploration

●Integrate several methods

–Author, subject linkages

–Call number “shelf browse”

–“More like this...”

–Circulation-based recommendations

●Limitations of circulation-based method

●Identify other data rich in human-generated linkages....citations, reading lists...


	Alternative methods: not mutually exclusive, and all may be of interest for different reasons and to support different tasks. We’re considering how all of these methods could intersect in terms of presentation to the user.

	The circulation-based method seems to generate recommendations that start to harness the “collective intelligence” of the scholarly community, in ways that the other methods do not. But => less than 25% of the collection (the part that circulates). MUST generate recommendations that delve into the “long tail.” Also, long-term viability of circulation data is unclear. a) availability; b) access increasingly digital. Are there other data sources that can make those interesting connections that the metadata cannot make for us?

	Book bags for personal collections?