These wold be great developments - but then some of us have issues with patron privacy... We have parents and teachers asking for a "list of what student X has checked out" we like to say this is not doable in Koha. So if there was a way to hide the data but use it analytically that would be fantastic.
David Schuster 2010/12/23 Partha Mukhopadhyay <[email protected]> > > Dear all, > > I would like to put forward a wish list (thinking over it from version > 2.2.8)..... > > > > Preamble > > This wish list is based on the assumption that Koha 3.x stores circulation > history of borrowers. If so, then comes the question how can this dataset be > utilized in developing new breed of services. And how these services can > affect the mirror of any type or size library - the OPAC. > > > > Wish list I > > Is it possible to detrmine degree of association of authors by utlizing > circulation data? For example, in a set of 10 borrowers who borrowed book of > author x (say 10/10) also borrowed book by author y (say 8/10) or author z > (say 6/10) and so on, the degree of association is higher among author x and > author y and comparatively lower among author x and author z. It is quite > easy to determine statistical association of a given author with other > authors in this way and thereafter generating a map of authors where > searched author will be in the centre and highly associated authors in 1st > circle, moderately associated authors in 2nd circle and so on. Confused? Try > this....... > > http://www.literature-map.com/amitav+ghosh.html > > > > Wish list II > > If it is possible to incorporate this feature (author mapping) in Koha > OPAC, then on the basis of same circulation dataset we can generate a > reading advisory service to new users in a given field of study by giving a > service called what_should_they_read_next. Confused again? Try this...... > > Goto http://whatshouldireadnext.com/ and enter "digital library" Witten > > > > Wish list III > > If it is possible to incorporate the above two feature (author mapping and > resource mapping) in Koha OPAC, then on the basis of same circulation > dataset we can generate service (human mapping this time?) to link borrowers > who are interested in a given field of study (assuming people reading same > titles and same authors have coomon area of study/research). Hopefully not > confused again? Anyway try this...... > > Goto http://www.connectviabooks.com/ and enter "digital library" Witten > again. > > > > Hoping my favourite Koha developers will not let us down in this month of > gift and wishes. > > > > Merry X-mass..... > > > > Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay > Lecturer (Sr.), Department of Library and Information Science, University > of Burdwan, > Burdwan - 713 104 (WB), India > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > -- David Schuster Plano ISD Library Technology Coordinator
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