Data mining applications in digital libraries : Akdeniz University Central Library

Data mining is a process of an information that is produced from data clusters that occurs during the period of digitalization in order to produce important findings for decision-makers.In this study, the examples of findings in terms of data mining among data clusters that were generated in libraries are included. It is emphasized that what steps should be followed and some studies took part that are completed in Central Library of the Akdeniz university in this process.In the first chapter of this study data mining is emphasized and tried to explain the features in terms of scientific grounds. The preparation step which is an essential part of data mining is stated elaborately. Yet, the studies performed in digital libraries and the findings point that how the process to work are stated in the end of the chapter by means of data mining tools. Also the modelling and algorithms that are used during the process of data mining are emphasized in there.Various modelling is applied on data of issue-loan-circulation by means of information of users and issue of the application section of library. An important pre-processing took part in data before setting up the models thus the data was gotten to suitable to analysis. Association and cluster models are processed by Aprioi and TwoStep algorithms in order to gather useful data to pass to decision-makers of library, also enriched with charts.