Bibliomining Publicity

Links to scholarly research is in the Bibliomining bibliography. This page is a set of other places hat have mentioned Bibliomining in a significant way. If you know of something that isn't here, please e-mail scott@scottnicholson.com.

General News Media

Die Zeit had a brief article about Bibliomining on June 10, 2002 in the Higher Education section. It is in German, but Rolf Wigand was kind enough to translate it. It says:
- Data-Mining for Libraries - An online information service on the topic of Bibliomining is being offered by the researcher Scott Nicholson, Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University in the U. S. federal state of New York. Bibliomining is—stated quickly—data mining for libraries. Aside from information about bibliomining itself and explanations on the bibliomining process one may find above all a well structured bibliography. A current contribution on the topic, “Data mining for management decisions in corporate, special, digital, and traditional libraries,” penned by Nicholson himself is made available as an original manuscript. In addition, it is possible to register for an e-mail discussion list such that one may participate in a discourse on this topic.Some rubrics are still a little underdeveloped, but this rather leaves the impression that Nicholson is delivering pioneering work in the field of bibliomining.

Resources from the Library Community

The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk, a resource put together by Gary Price, named Bibliomining.com the Resource of the Week for May 23, 2002. The entry reads:
- Library Management
  Data Mining + Library Systems = Bibliomining
  Time again for something new, Bibliomining. In this case we're not talking about "mining" a web site for the most useful resources but rather utilizing some of the same concepts used in data mining to discover new knowledge. Dr. Scott Nicholson, an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, defines the term this way, "Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of behavior-based artifacts from library systems." Dr. Nicholson has created a Bibliomining site, discussion list, brief overview of the Bibliomining process. Finally, a Bibliomining bibliography contains a link to the full-text of a "preprint" version of a soon to be published paper by Nicholson and Dr. Jefferey Stanton. The paper titled, "Gaining strategic advantage through Bibliomining: Data mining for management decisions in corporate, special, digital, and traditional libraries" can be dowloaded in Word format. According to the bibliography, this is the introduction of the term Bibliomining in print.