Discovery of Access Patterns of Library Users

Abstract

Data mining, which is a new technique interested in discovering knowledge huge amount of data, has been effectively used in many sectors especially in banking, assurancy, medicine and marketing. Web mining, which is an application of data mining, performs data mining functions on web data. With the help of web mining, which is seperated into two branches as web content mining and web usage mining, discovery and analysis of useful knowledge on web is made. Existance of user access patterns which is included in the subject of web content mining, is being done especially with the link analysis that is a technique of data mining. In this study, access patterns of library users is tried to be found based on web logs of library web site.