[Evergreen-general] Feature idea for patrons accounts; Personalized Carousels

[Terran McCanna]

I feel fairly certain this would be a pretty massive project to come up
with a way to determine recommendations and may or may not be worth the
time and development expense since there are third party vendors that
already do similar things as part of their core business. Syndetics and
NoveList added content will both provide recommendations at the title or
author level (ie, you look up a book you liked and it will recommend others
that are available to you through the library), and then there are other
companies that can generate recommendations based on personal reading
history - that is going to depend on providing them with a certain amount
of user data though, and that gets really tricky with patron
confidentiality.

Of course, users can also download their reading history as a CSV file and
upload it to GoodReads themselves if they are somewhat savvy - this could
probably made easier with a relatively small development project to allow
patrons to export their booklist in a format that was specifically
compatible to goodreads so they wouldn't have to do any editing to it
(unless they wanted to) after they downloaded it.


On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM Johnathon Redmon via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> I'm a cataloger, not a programmer so I don't know how reasonable (or
> possible) this is. But ever since I first heard about the idea of
> carousels, I've dreamed of being able to log into my patron account and
> have a netflix style recommendation carousel hooked on to an algorithm that
> suggests items based on the 1xx, 6xx and 7xx marc fields of items you've
> recently checked out. What would be the possibility of such a feature, and
> what kind of hurdles would have to be jumped to do this?
>
>
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