Personalization and Web Design
Web Wizard's Track - Supplementary Sheet to accompany PowerPoint Slides.

Monica Bonett, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK
M.Bonett@ukoln.ac.uk

URLs were functioning when last checked on 15th March 2002.

Examples of sites with personalization features (including the ones in the presentation).
Job adverts from the academic community http://www.jobs.ac.uk/
University Portal http://www.warwickpiazza.net/default/main.asp
Buying train tickets http://www.virgin.com/trains/
Television listings http://www.ptvplus.com/ptv/home.jsp
Book purchases http://www.amazon.co.uk/
General portals http://my.yahoo.com/?myHome http://www.wellsfargo.com/
Car purchases (US) http://www2.gmbuypower.com/app/gmbp/us/en/gmbp/gmbp/stage.thtml
Building favourite aisles when purchasing stationery http://www.staples.com/

General Articles and sites
Monica Bonett, "Personalization of Web Services: Opportunities and Challenges" Ariadne Issue 28, June 2001 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue28/personalization/
The Personalization Consortium http://www.personalization.org/personalization.html

Personalization Frameworks
The Argus Centre for Information Architecture supports an informative website on information architecture http://argus-acia.com/
The diagram of an architecture for personalization is re-used (with permission) from Keith Instone, Information Architecture and Personalization, Argus Associates. (December 2000) http://argus-acia.com/white_papers/personalization.pdf
SOAP (Simple Object Acess Protocol) http://www.w3c.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-part0-20011217/

Projects and Software for Libraries and Educational Institutions
Headline Project http://www.headline.ac.uk/
Headline PIE http://www.headline.ac.uk/public/diss/
http://www.lita.org/ital/ital1904.html
http://www.headline.ac.uk/public/diss/jp-PIE-HybLib-model/
Paschoud, J., Making the PIE ...GEL, Cultivate Interactive, 4, 7 May 2001.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue4/pie/
Scholnet http://www.ercim.org/scholnet/
MyLibrary Development Page http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/development/mylibrary/
Morgan, E.L., Personalized Library Interfaces, Exploit Interactive, 6, 26 June 2000.
http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue6/libraries/
uPortal http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/
Useful list of library-related personalization articles at Lund University http://www.medfak.lu.se/forskning/mis/mylibrary_bibliography.php3

Metadata
UKOLN metadata pages
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
IMS Global Learning Consortium
http://www.imsproject.org/
IMS Learner Information Specification
http://www.imsproject.org/profiles/lipbest01a.html#1.1
eduPerson http://www.educause.edu/eduperson/

Privacy
P3P Platform for Privacy Preferences
http://www.w3c.org/P3P/
P3P 1.0 A New Standard in Online Privacy
http://www.w3.org/P3P/brochure.html

Commercial Personalization Products
Netperceptions http://www.netperceptions.com/
NCR http://www.ncr.com/solutions/crm/personalization.htm
BroadVision http://www.broadvision.com/OneToOne/SessionMgr/home_page.jsp
Changing Worlds http://www.changingworlds.com
and others http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Personalization/

Discussions on terminology:
SIGIA-L mailing list archive - Subject: Customize vs. Personalize
http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=sigia

Collaboration/Affiliations
The IMesh Toolkit Web Pages are at http://www.imesh.org/toolkit/
The JISC/NSF Digital Library Initiative http://www.jisc.ac.uk/nsf/index.html
UKOLN web pages are at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
The Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
The Subject Portals Project http://www.portal.ac.uk/

Printed Materials
Loren Terveen and Will Hill. Beyond Recommender Systems: Helping People Help Each Other in Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millenium. John M. Carroll (ed.), Addison Wesley, New York (2001).

Communications of the ACM. Special Issue on Personalization. August 2000, Vol 23 (8). http://www.acm.org/cacm

Joint DELOS-NSF Workshop on Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries, 18-20 June, Dublin, Ireland http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/delos/