Personalised resource discovery searching over multiple repository types, using user and information provider profiling

Rousseau, Boris and Browne, Parisch and Malone, Paul and Foster, Paul and Mendis, Venura (2006) Personalised resource discovery searching over multiple repository types, using user and information provider profiling. In: Enterprise Information Systems VI. Springer, Netherlands, pp. 316-324. ISBN 978-1-4020-3675-0

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Abstract

The success of the Information Society, with the overabundance of online multimedia information, has become an obstacle for users to discover pertinent resources. For those users, the key is the refinement of resource discovery as the choice and complexity of available online content continues to grow. The work resented in this paper will address this issue by representing complex extensible user and information provider profiles and content metadata using XML and the provision of a middle canonical language to aid in learner-to-content matching, independent of the underlying metadata format. This approach can provide a federated search solution leading to personalise resource discovery based on user requirements and preferences, seamlessly searching over multiple repository types. The novelty of the work includes the complex extensible user profiles, information provider profiles, the canonical language and the federated search strategy. Although, the work presented is focused on E-Learning, the general ideas could be applied to any resource discovery or information retrieval

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: Porto, Portugal
Uncontrolled Keywords: E-Learning,personalisation,profiling,user profile,information provider profile,resource discovery,multiple repository types.
Departments or Groups: Walton Institute for Information and Communications Systems Science
Divisions: *NONE OF THESE*
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2007 11:18
Last Modified: 22 Aug 2016 10:25
URI: https://repository.wit.ie/id/eprint/652

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