Information technologies are growing rapidly today. Those are also used by content providers to deliver
a web based application that can help educational institutions to maintain their knowledge resources
such as e-journal. There are many e-journal applications have been built that we can find easily, but
most of them are English based journals. Among the few e-journal applications in Indonesian, it was
rarely well maintain. Q-Journal, developed by PT Telkom Indonesia, is an integrated digital platform
for discovery and publishing research result such as journals. To be a competitive application, e-journal
system must provide a better experience to users by creating a learning journal contents system.
Learning contents mean that the system has capabilities to understand what users need by learning their
behavior and store it as form of user profile. Once user profile created, the system will suggest the other
contents which are match with their profile for the next visit or search.
Those capabilities could only be implemented by using data mining techniques. Combine with suitable
algorithms and approaches, the application could deliver an effective and efficient both for the system
itself and the user. In this research, Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) method capable to
provide a good accuracy in performing topic clustering. So it has generated learning content as a good
user navigation system for digital learning resources. The validation process is calculated by cophenetic
correlation coefficient value (CPCC).
As a result, average value performance measurement of hierarchical clustering result produced by
CPCC is 0.91 that indicates the clustering result have a good performance. The implementation of the
propose design for user navigation has proved to be able providing a better result for e-Journal existing
system. The structure of hierarchy topic-subtopic can be organized with keywords extraction approach
so it become a good user navigation. The propose system can optimize facilitating contextual browse
by considering user information which is adopted from users' interest. Implementation of user
navigation design makes easier for user getting information proper to their interests. User navigation
generating system is considered to allow a user to find a learning path for adjustment the user's interest
on a particular learning topic.