Category Archives: Wins and fails (lessons along the way)

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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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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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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Synthesis project visit 20th April

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

Activity data cookbook The RISE team had a really good session yesterday working with Mark van Harmelen from Hedtek to go through and develop a series of ‘recipes’ for the Activity Data ‘cookbook’.  These recipes describe the processes involved in the … Continue reading →

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