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Authors:
Toshiro Minami
Keywords: knowledge management; knowledge discovery; library marketing; data analysis; data mining;
Abstract:
The concept of knowledge management is important not only in industries but also in educational organizations like universities. Considering the importance of this concept, it is not surprising that many universities have introduced the database system for saving the profiles and history information of students and utilize them in order to improve their educational abilities. In order to make the information more effective in education, it is preferable to collect not only the information in raw but also the knowledge that is found by the data with data analysis and data mining. In this paper, as a new approach to knowledge mining in education as a part of educational knowledge management, we deal with the circulation records of a university library as the target data. The library's circulation records show the relationship between the patrons and the books, which are usable to know the patrons about their fields of interest, knowledge levels, and other information. In this paper, we put special emphasis on the investigation of the profiling of students as a knowledge management. As a part of this, we deal with the interest area of a student and explore the measuring methods for the profiling of the student patrons.
Pages: 45 to 50
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013
Publication date: February 24, 2013
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4375
ISBN: 978-1-61208-254-7
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013