Deduced social networks for an educational digital library

  • Authors:
  • Monika Akbar;Clifford A. Shaffer;Edward A. Fox

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

By analyzing the behavior of previous users, digital libraries can be made to provide new users with more support to find the best information. The AlgoViz Portal collects metadata on algorithm visualizations and associated research literature. We show how logs can be used to discover latent relationships between users, deducing an implicit social network. By clustering the log data, we find different page-viewing patterns, which provide practical information about the different groups of users.