Comments on: Personalized Search http://scriblio.net/scribbles/145/personalized-search/ open source software for libraries Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:17:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: calebtr http://scriblio.net/scribbles/145/personalized-search/#comment-1673 calebtr Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:40:17 +0000 http://libdev.plymouth.edu/post/30#comment-1673 re: opac applications, and not completely on-topic, i think it's long overdue that we (try to) use search data to help out our relevancy rankings in keyword searches, except instead of tracking each individual's personalized searches, track the community of people who search. privacy-wise, an anonymous session cookie could record the search and rate success based on what records were viewed (some points), how many records were viewed for that session-search (a search is less helpful if you have to look at lots of records), and whether or not the link to place a hold was followed from any record (lots of points). later on, the next searcher benefits. librarians can even seed rankings (call it cataloging). re: opac applications, and not completely on-topic, i think it’s long overdue that we (try to) use search data to help out our relevancy rankings in keyword searches, except instead of tracking each individual’s personalized searches, track the community of people who search.

privacy-wise, an anonymous session cookie could record the search and rate success based on what records were viewed (some points), how many records were viewed for that session-search (a search is less helpful if you have to look at lots of records), and whether or not the link to place a hold was followed from any record (lots of points).

later on, the next searcher benefits.

librarians can even seed rankings (call it cataloging).

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