Using OpenURL Activity Data: final report and recommender

The Using OpenURL Activity Data project constitutes the third phase of the work done by EDINA to aggregate and share activity data from institutions’ OpenURL resolvers and the UK OpenURL Router, to enable the education community to potentially build new services using these data.

This project used the recommendations for future work outlined in the final report of the second phase of the project to further develop the aggregation of, and support the use of, the data.

In particular, this project aimed to

Establish sustainable processes for producing, maintaining, and automating the production and publication of aggregation data
Encourage further participation and contribution from HEIs and OpenURL resolver vendors
Provide an API to an improved Recommender
Support use of the aggregation through documentation and use cases

The Phase 3 final report highlights the outputs and outcomes of the project, notably the development of a Recommender that locates an article and suggests related publications using a database of recommendations based on OpenURL activity data.

Project summary