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Recommendations for further work

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. Recommendations for further work. Recommendations for further work. This is an informal report outlining the likely recommendations from the Activity Data projects to help JISC to determine future work in the area. This is not intended as a public document, but rather to stimulate discussion and lead to a more formal document at a later stage. There are two things to note at this stage:. The recommendations appear under the following topic areas:.

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The JISC activity data projects

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. The JISC activity data projects. The JISC activity data projects. The JISC Activity data programme funded nine projects to investigate a variety of different areas of activity data. These were. These are systems which offer alternative suggestions when you are searching or retrieving material. Project is designed to help users to find rarely used material in libraries. While most recommender systems offer choices that are commonly associated with ...

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Related work

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. There is much other work going on in the area of using activity data. Here we point to some of the other work, which we have divided up as follows:. Other JISC funded work,. Other work elsewhere in the world.

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Introduction

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. The programme reported here sought to develop robust evidence of practice and of the business case as well as technical foundations to establish positively that the HE-specific exploitation of activity data has merits for both the institution and the user. The role of the Synthesis Project has been to support, cohere and leverage this work in the form of documentation and dissemination activities to fulfil the objectives of the call, notably:.

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Lessons learnt

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. One of the key purposes of the activity data programme was that other universities and colleges should be able to learn lessons from the work of the projects in order to make it easier for others to build on the work of the projects. Here we draw together some of the key lessons learnt by the projects and either reported by themselves or observed by us as part of our synthesis work. The lessons learnt can be divided into the following areas:. On the o...

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Data protection issues

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. It is essential that you consider data protection as this is a legal issue governed by the Data Protection Act 1998. And various codes produced by the. There are two key areas that you will have to consider when using activity data:. Data can only be used for purposes which it had been collected (as notified to the user). Where information is being made public (released as open data) the information needs to be suitably anonymised. The Office of the I...

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Collecting, processing and presenting activity data

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. Collecting, processing and presenting activity data. Collecting, processing and presenting activity data. Here there are issues to do with the data needed for analysis tasks, its quality and completeness, its formats, and any specialist tools are required to collect it. Processing activity data to obtain useful results. Presenting the results of activity data use.

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High level guidance

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. Guides provide short focused descriptions of topic areas that are essential to know about when thinking about or undertaking an activity data project. While there is some variation in the structure of guides, they are uniformly prefaced by a short topic description, a description of the general problem area that the guide addresses, and options for solutions in the area. Building a business case. Sharing activity data: Legal issues.

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Benefits of using activity data

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Exploiting activity data in the academic environment. Benefits of using activity data. Benefits of using activity data. One of the earliest to exploit activity data was Barclaycard who used it to identify unusual patterns of behaviour by card users which could indicate that the card had been stolen and was being used fraudulently. This lead to significant savings through the early identification and stopping of stolen cards. Improving services and systems.