A dumb idea for opening up library usage data
Posted in everythingis, everythingIsMiscellaneous, libraries on October 8th, 2014 3 Comments »
A dumb idea, but its dumbness is its virtue.
The idea is that libraries that want to make data about how relevant items are to their communities could algorithmically assign a number between 1-100 to those items. This number would present a very low risk of re-identification, would be easily compared across libraries, and would give local libraries control over how they interpret relevance.
I explain this idea in a post at The Chronicle of Higher Ed…
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