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A Study of Citations in Users’ Online Personal Collections

A Study of Citations in Users’ Online Personal Collections. Nishikant Kapoor John T Butler, Sean M McNee, Gary C Fouty James A Stemper, Joseph A Konstan GroupLens Research Group and University Libraries University of Minnesota. Recommenders Systems. Recommenders Systems.

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A Study of Citations in Users’ Online Personal Collections

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  1. A Study of Citations in Users’ Online Personal Collections Nishikant Kapoor John T Butler, Sean M McNee, Gary C Fouty James A Stemper, Joseph A Konstan GroupLens Research Group and University Libraries University of Minnesota

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  9. Motivation • Citation web data can be used to effectively generate recommendations for the technical paper • “On the Recommending of Citations for Research Papers”, McNee, et al. (CSCW 2002) • “Enhancing Digital Libraries with TechLens+”, Torres, et al. (JCDL 2004)

  10. Research Objectives • Design & Develop • Personalized digital library services • Understand • Users’ research interests

  11. Research Questions Can we utilize users’ personal citation collections to offer them personalized DL services? • Can citations in users’ personal collections be resolved to unique identifiers? • How many of those do actually resolve to a unique online identifier? • How many of the resolved citations do actually lead to an online source for their content or metadata?

  12. RefWorks

  13. Citation Collections • RefWorks users • 96 collections, 30,336 citations • Two outliers (4000+ and 7000+) 316

  14. Citation Types

  15. User Profile • Users’ personal citation collections • Represent users’ profile • Research interests, Research collaborations • Are single collections • Related, Diverse • Are multiple collections • Task based, Workgroup based

  16. Citation Types J B R N D S

  17. Citation Types W J B R N D

  18. Resolvability • A citation is resolvable if it has • A valid unique ID : DOI for articles, ISBN for books • Enough information to resolve it to a unique ID All citations that can be represented using a valid unique ID, are potentially resolvable.

  19. External Resolvers • DOI and OpenURL Query Interfaces • Citation resolvers at crossref.org (CR) • ISBN Query Interfaces • Citation resolver at worldcat.org (WC)

  20. Validity • A URL is valid if it leads to a citation’s source online • URLs : URL may or may not be unique • Validated existence of URL, not its accuracy • Did not attempt to retrieve ID for citation

  21. DOI Resolvability 0 0 0 0

  22. ISBN Resolvability

  23. URL Validity

  24. Resolvability Overlap

  25. Resolvability Summary 8,540 (47%)

  26. Limitations & Concerns • Very limited resolvers were used • Additional resolvers such as the Citation Matcher from PubMed could enhance resolvability further • Dataset too small and diverse • Difficult to find correlation among users • CF based services work better with larger dataset • Privacy concerns • Users want (a) control (b) anonymity

  27. Future Work • Survey - Users’ willingness to share their personal collections • Understand how truly do users’ personal collections represent their profile? • Prototype of CF based DL services http://techlens.cs.umn.edu/ RecSys, Minneapolis, Oct 19-20, 2007

  28. Acknowledgements • NSF grant IIS-0534939 • RefWorks (http://www.refworks.com/)

  29. A Study of Citations in Users’ Online Personal Collections Nishikant Kapoor Questions?

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