JISC competition finds stars in library user data Figures showing everyday use of a university library are the unlikely stars of a Jisc-funded competition showcasing innovative approaches to presenting library data. The winning entrant, an undergraduate computer scientist, created an imaginative ‘book galaxy’ showing books as stars in the galaxy of library resources accessed by University of Huddersfield students and staff - scroll down this page to see it. Alex Parker’s space-age entry presents library data in three different ‘galaxy’ views where library books are represented as moving stars that change speed and location according to how popular they are within a given course. They also join together in constellations to show books on connected topic, while orbited by meteors representing the courses of the students using those books.I had an idea that if you linked similar books together in a 'web' and did that for every book in the library interesting patterns would emerge. Move your mouse around the galaxy to see the titles.
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