Category Archives: personalisation

Personalisation is the supply of services and/or data based on a model of a user

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: August 21, 2010
As part of work commissioned by JISC from Sero Consulting and Hedtek I’ve come up with a broad, simple definition of personalisation: Personalisation is the supply of services and/or data based on a model of a user. Supply and model are interpreted broadly, to mean by a machine or human agent. Examples of human agency are personalised [...]
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The Mosaic search engine

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: November 18, 2009
  We are coming to the end of the JISC-funded Mosaic Project. As part of that project Hedtek has designed and, with help from our friends at Sefol U.G., implemented a prototype search engine that allows personalised searches of bibliographic data according to one’s own course cohort, or according to various other faceted criteria that [...]
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