Webvoyage Recommender service using historical loan data

Tags: Perl, Javascript, jQuery, recommender, recommendation, expert

Last Updated: Nov 29, 2010 11:57

Description
This code contribution enhances Webvoyage by providing recommendations to users when they are viewing items. It uses historical loan data to identify items that are frequently borrowed by borrowers of the currently viewed item. Additional ranking is done using subject headings.
Author: Andrew Isherwood
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Institution: University of Wales - Aberystwyth
Year: 2010
License: BSD style
Short description: Use, modification and distribution of the code are permitted provided the copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer appear in all related material.
Link to terms: [Detailed license terms]
Skill required for using this code:
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Programming language
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Author(s) homepage
Download
Working example
Changes

Version 1.0

Installation instructions
Comments

State

Stable

Programming language

Perl, Javascript, jQuery

Software requirements

The ability to create a new database table either in a different instance of Oracle or as a different user

Author(s) homepage

http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/addons/

Download

See the above URL

Working example

http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/vwebv/searchBasic

Changes

Version 1.0

Tested with Voyager 7.0.4

Installation instructions

See http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/addons/

Comments

I'd love to find a way of doing this without having to create a separate table etc. The only reason for this is that there isn't an index on the patron_id column in circ_trans_archive, consequently the queries take an inordinately long time to run. If anyone has any suggestions, please get in touch!