Monthly Archives: July 2011

Final blog post

Posted on July 26, 2011 by admin

What has RISE produced? A database based on EZProxy activity data, enhanced with bibliographic data from Crossref,  and containing terms used to search via the RISE interface. A web search interface http://library.open.ac.uk/rise to show recommendations to users searching the Ebsco Discovery … Continue reading →

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Users

Posted on July 26, 2011 by eam36

“A user focused post talking about the use case (user requirements) for the project work, how the project affects your users and how users are being engaged and reacting to the project” The user requirements The evidence from library users … Continue reading →

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RISE Code Now Released

Posted on July 25, 2011 by eam36

We are pleased to announce that the RISE code is now released on Google Code. See http://code.google.com/p/rise-project/source/browse/trunk/rise/  It is important to check out the release notes, as this code is not an “out-of-the-box” solution. It can be used as a reference … Continue reading →

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Activity Data from Proxy logfiles

Posted on July 25, 2011 by admin

As we reach the end of the RISE project we are trying to summarise a lot of the things that we have learnt about the data and systems that we are using to help others who might look at emulating … Continue reading →

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Licensing and reuse of software and data

Posted on July 22, 2011 by admin

Background The RISE database uses data from the log files of the EZProxy system that the Open University uses to allow off-campus users to connect to electronic resources.  Searches carried out by users through the RISE search interface and RISE … Continue reading →

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RISE measuring success

Posted on July 13, 2011 by admin

As we reach the end of the RISE project it’s a good time to reflect back on the success of the project.  At the start we said that we were going to measure the success in several specific ways (shown … Continue reading →

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EZProxy and activity data

Posted on July 13, 2011 by admin

EZProxy pros and cons What RISE has demonstrated to us is that using proxy server logfiles from EZProxy as the source of your recommendations has some major limitations (in comparison with OpenURL data at least).  In part this is due to limitations in the … Continue reading →

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Benefits – what we expected and what we’ve been able to achieve

Posted on July 13, 2011 by admin

For some reason we didn’t manage to finish off our blog post on the intended benefits of the RISE project.  Like the Users post we thought it might be more useful to do it towards the end of the project … Continue reading →

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RISE EZProxy parser step by step

Posted on July 12, 2011 by admin

We thought that it might be useful to set out step by step how we get from an EZProxy logfile entry to a set of bibliographic data that we can use in the display of our recommendations.  As a minimum … Continue reading →

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June update

Posted on July 11, 2011 by admin

Activities during June and early July A bit later than expected owing to a week spent largely talking to people about RISE, Activity Data and Shared Services. June and early July has been spent mainly in finishing off the evaluation … Continue reading →

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