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February 20, 2009

Uses of ticTOCs data

February 20, 2009

The following are examples of people using the data collected by ticTOCs in various ways:Roy Tennant refactored his peer-reviewed journals site to include RSS feeds, thanks to the ticTOCs service:(try searching, and in the results see RSS links).This is made possible through his use of the simple tab-delimited text file that contains all of the titles, ISSNs and feed URIs ...

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February 13, 2009

Gold Dust test results (first iteration)

February 13, 2009

Here is a table of the Gold Dust project test results from 15th December.Brief explanation: two methods were used, Termine and Extminer. Users rated the relevance of matching items in their digests on a scale of 1-10. The digests were organised according to categories of feeds (CFPs, new items in IRs, etc). The statistic that stands out is that ...

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Two things that seem to be not so good about Emerge blogs

February 13, 2009

1. As far as I can see, there's no way to get stats of views of blog posts. So, sometimes one can wonder if anyone is reading the posts. Checking stats of posts on other blogs (e.g. ticTOCs News as listed below) is always informative. Scholarly journals - new free service ma 1,871 About 373 New journal TOC RSS ...

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February 12, 2009

Photos from York Emerge meeting

February 12, 2009

These missed the Flickr stream on ...

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Gold Dust is good for you

February 12, 2009

The above is a diagram Simon Hodson, the Gold Dust Manager, created showing the items retrieved for one particular user in the first iteration of the Gold Dust project tests with users. The items are ranked according to the significance rating which was given by the software used for one of the Gold Dust approaches. Then, the items which were ...

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