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AEIOU Wales Activity data to Enhance and Increase Open-access Usage

AEIOU Wales Activity data to Enhance and Increase Open-access Usage. A quick overview of the ‘ Vowel ’ project. JISC Infrastructure for Education and Research Programme Call for Projects (October 2010) Activity data Strand

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AEIOU Wales Activity data to Enhance and Increase Open-access Usage

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  1. AEIOU WalesActivity data to Enhance and Increase Open-access Usage A quick overview of the ‘Vowel’ project

  2. JISC Infrastructure for Education and Research Programme • Call for Projects (October 2010) • Activity data Strand • Projects to explore the exploitation of user activity data in the sector and to identify opportunities for institutions to improve / share services • 7-10 projects (total £500,000) Feb-Jul 2011 • one synthesis project (£100,000) Feb-Sep 2011 JISC call for projects

  3. Commercial companies such as Amazon and Tesco have made a great success of exploiting their data about customer activities to improve services to customers • Recent research and projects have suggested that similar opportunities may exist for Higher Education institutions in managing their research, learning, information and administrative services JISC Background and rationale

  4. ..explore user activity data in further and higher education and to identify opportunities for institutions to improve services to students, teachers and researchers • ..to improve management of institutional services and to identify opportunities where it would be beneficial or more efficient to cooperate at a national, regional or consortia level JISC Aim(s)

  5. Usage data • actions that a user has performed (e.g. downloads) • Attention data • items that a user has viewed (e.g. metadata records) • ‘Activity data’ is used as an umbrella term to cover usage and attention data Activity data definition

  6. When preparing proposals, bidders must start by describing an institutional problem or a hypothesis that they will use activity data to address • Every project must attempt to produce an answer to their hypothesis or problem by the end of the project • Light-weight touch – reporting via Blog • Funding announced 19th January 2011 • Project start 1st February 2011! JISC Requirements

  7. The purpose of the proposed AEIOU Wales Project is to increase the visibility and usage of academic research outputs by aggregating Welsh institutional repository activity data to provide a shared recommendation service • ..this will be demonstrated through a significant increase in attention and usage data at both an institutional and national level AEIOU Outline & Hypothesis

  8. Identify and document current activity data gathering including Google analytics across partner repositories • Establish baseline activity data from partner institutions for comparison and evaluation throughout project • Provide an evaluation report on the activity data collected through core partners over the life of the project to prove or disprove the hypothesis WP 1 - Activity Data Audit

  9. <activityData> Google Central aggregation of Activity data Recommendation Service Item Recommendations Also viewed ---- ---- Also downloaded ---- ---- Institutional Repositories WP 2 - Recommendation Service: Specification / Architecture

  10. WP 3 - Recommendation Service: Technical development and deployment • WP 4 - Welsh Research Gateway * • WP 5 – Research Collaboration * • WP 6 – Evaluation • WP 7 – Project Management • JISC comments: • Technically interesting / well established partnerships / well defined WPs / reduce scope(?) Other Work Packages

  11. Timetable

  12. Activity Data Audit Report • Recommendation service: specification document • Recommendation service: product • Recommendation service: model, Open Source software and documentation that can be applied to other institutions and networks of repositories • (Welsh Research Gateway) * • (Report on research collaboration) * • Information event for the community • Case study from focus group • Final report PROJECT DELIVERABLES

  13. Reports on progress and feedback from consortium partners will be built into the regular cycle of ongoing WRN meetings alongside WHELF business meetings • Minimum of 6 Blog posts monitored by JISC Synthesis Project PROJECT MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS

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