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RISE project blog in Internet Archive

Posted on March 14, 2017 by admin

The RISE project blog is archived in the Internet Archive and can be found via the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20161124021447/http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/RISE/

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New case study on RISE and forthcoming changes to Google Code

Posted on March 26, 2015 by admin

A case study “The potential of data to inform personalized recommendations at the Open University Library” is included in a new book from Facet due to be published in April 2015. Showers, B. Library Analytics and Metrics: Using Data to Drive … Continue reading →

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RISE references in JISC Activity Data and JISC CETIS Learning Analytics reports

Posted on January 25, 2013 by admin

JISC and JISC CETIS have recently published several Activity Data and Learning Analytics papers with references to the RISE project. JISC Activity Data – delivering benefits from the data deluge This report covering the potential of activity data includes a … Continue reading →

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RISE celebration event

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

As a final wrap-up for the RISE project we ran a short lunchtime seminar this week for OU staff from the Library and across the University.  It was a chance to say thanks to the people who were involved in … Continue reading →

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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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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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