Constructing linkage between libraries and up-to-date news
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to construct the linkage between libraries and up-to-date news. This study developed a system to recommend libraries’ resources to those daily news readers who are interested in the topics of the target news. The analysis of experiments results served as the reference for the development and improvement of linking libraries’ resources with other web resources.
Design/methodology/approach
Up-to-date news were gathered through the news feeds to make the integration with the libraries’ records. In task 1, the libraries’ records were linked and recommended to the target libraries’ records which are of the same topics. In task 2, the system aimed to find the relevant libraries’ records for target news. Three recommendation methods were compared in both tasks to find the most effective approach to the system.
Findings
Experiment results showed that: at first, in task 1, the system can assign the libraries’ records of the related topics effectively; second, in task 2, the recommending system can obtain a satisfied recall hit rate through human evaluation. Therefore, regarding the popularity of the daily news online, the linkage and recommendation with the libraries’ resources can increase the visibility of the libraries’ resources and eventually promote the information consuming in libraries.
Practical implications
The authors have confirmed, using three matrix factorization methods, that weighted matrix factorization used in the libraries’ records recommendation system, could achieve better performance than the other two. Based on the research, the libraries could incorporate the online news and libraries’ resources in practice.
Originality/value
To increase the visibility and promote information consuming of libraries, this study proposed a novel method to construct the linkage between library and up-to-date news. The results of data analysis indicate that recommendation of libraries resources through the daily news can achieve effective performance. Thus, it can be inferred that the research results of this study are representative and have practical values in real world practice.
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Acknowledgements
The authors thank for the precious work of the anonymous reviewers. This work is supported by the Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Youth funded project (Grant No. 15YJC870002), the project of Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. 14TQC003), General University Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. 15KJB520013), the Major Projects of National Social Science Fund of China (Grant No. 13 & ZD174), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20620140647). Figure 2. A record published by OCLC
Citation
Yu, W. and Chen, J. (2016), "Constructing linkage between libraries and up-to-date news", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 301-313. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-11-2015-0109
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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