Hi everyone
Just a quick plug for a developer competition that's being run by the JISC
funded MOSAIC ("Making Our Shared Activity Information Count") Project in the
UK: http://www.sero.co.uk/jisc-mosaic-competition.html
The usage data can be found for download via:
http://library.hud.ac.uk/wikis/mosaic/index.php/Project_Data
...and the "Data Collection Guide" explains the XML format of the data:
http://library.hud.ac.uk/wikis/mosaic/index.php/Project_Documentation
At present, it's just book usage data from the University of Huddersfield
that's available to play around with, but we're hoping that it will be joined
by some usage data from a few other UK academic libraries in due course.
As the XML usage data files are pretty big (i.e. opening them in Internet
Explorer is a sure fire way of killing a PC!), I've put together a quick &
dirty API for grabbing subsets of the data:
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/953
Tony Hirst (from the Open University in the UK) has done a helpful blog post
here: http://bit.ly/8RjYU
In terms of the competition, it's open to anyone (i.e. not just developers
based in the UK). The prizes are in UK sterling and the competition is being
run according to UK law (just in case competition laws vary from country to
country).
Have fun!
Dave Pattern
Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield
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