Mechanical Librarian

The document outlines Andre Vellino's talk on recommending journal articles in a scientific digital library. The talk covers an overview of recommender systems, how they work, examples of recommender systems used in digital libraries, and challenges for recommender systems in scientific digital libraries. It also provides details on CISTI's recommender research strategy, including using citation data and PageRank to address data sparsity issues. The document includes outlines of the talk sections and examples of the Synthese recommender system developed at CISTI Lab.