Automated user modeling for personalized digital libraries

Abstract

Abstract.Digital libraries (DL) have become one of the most typical ways of accessing any kind of digitalized information. Due to this key role, users welcome any improvements on the services they receive from digital libraries. One trend used to improve digital services is through personalization. Up to now, the most common approach for personalization in digital libraries has been user-driven. Nevertheless, the design of efficient personalized services has to be done, at least in part, in an automatic way. In this context, machine learning techniques automate the process of constructing user models. This paper proposes a new approach to construct digital libraries that satisfy user's necessity for information: Adaptive Digital Libraries, libraries that automatically learn user preferences and goals and personalize their interaction using this information.

Development of a Service Framework for Library Users from Customer Relationship Management Perspective

“…Recently, researchers have focused on the concept of personalization or personalized service (Bielema et al, 2007;Frias-Martinez et al, 2006;Fan et al, 2005;Renda & Straccia, 2005;Giacomo et al, 2004;Hicks, 2003;Jurewicz & Cutler, 2003). Libraries provide a communicational channel (i.e., Libweb), through which users can ask for a service; however, this is a passive solicitation of feedback.…”

Personalised online sales using web usage data mining

“…In [12], Frias-Martinez et.al. present a new approach through constructing "E-libraries" that can customise the online users' experience when searching for books, journals, articles etc.…”

“…I.e, [9,10,11,12] have proposed content-based systems which learn user preferences by analysing their accessing patterns and then recommend items specific to the users' interests. Such systems are solely based on matching information within a user's registration document with established user demographic profiles.…”

Integrating Digital Libraries with Instruction: Design and Promotion of Educational Applications

“…Digital libraries store great amounts of a variety of information and deliver associated services to user communities using a variety of technologies (Frias-Martinez, Magoulas, Chen, & Macredie, 2006). Although many websites provide a great deal of media including text, pictures, animation and maps, a rich assortment of media does not necessarily guarantee the valid delivery of information.…”