Title :
Mining and analyzing digital archive usage data to support collection development decisions
Author :
Ward, Jewel ; Bollen, Johan ; Pearson, Jeffrey ; Chan, Shing-Cheung ; Hui-Hsien Chi ; Chi, Hui-Hsien ; Guevara, Kristine ; Huang, Hsiao-han ; Kim, Genesan ; Krivokon, Maks ; Lee, Bo H. ; Li, Pei-Han ; Muliawan, Fenny ; Nguyen, Vu ; Boehm, Barry W. ; Brown
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a collection development decision support tool that mines digital archive usage data. We want to better understand the University of Southern California (USC) Digital Archive´s collection structure by analyzing the objects´ characteristics, by analyzing the relationships between viewed objects, and by understanding usage trends over time. By relying on implicit patterns of usage data, such as co-retrievals, rather than explicit data, such as hit counts, we believe we can make more informed decisions about where to expend our resources
Keywords :
data mining; decision support systems; digital libraries; information retrieval; University of Southern California Digital Archive; co-retrievals; collection development decisions; data mining; decision support tool; digital archive usage data; object characteristics; object relationships; usage trends; Algorithm design and analysis; Clustering algorithms; Data analysis; Data mining; Databases; Graphics; Software libraries; Visualization; Web server; co-retrieval; collection development; data mining; usage analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2005. JCDL '05. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-876-8
DOI :
10.1145/1065385.1065521
