[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Awesome Box Integration

[Vanya Jauhal]

Hello Rogan

Thank you for your input. Now that you pointed it out, it seems to be a
valid point.

Maybe, as a solution to that, we can have a hierarchical algorithm for
categorizing. In other words, we can allow the administrator to decide
whether the categorization comes all the way down to genres, or just takes
into account the overall weight of the user's awesome tag.

What do you think?

I'm glad you liked the idea. Any feedback from you would be very helpful.

Thank you
Vanya


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net>
wrote:

> I can see some challenges to tracking genre and I'd be hesitant to put too
> much value on it.  There are ways to catalog it but in my experience
> actually relying on it being in records (much less being consistent) is
> very unreliable in organizations that do a lot of copy cataloging / don't
> have centralized and controlled cataloging and there quite a few in that
> boat.
>
> That concern aside, I've always thought this would be a fun and
> potentially valuable thing to add.
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Vanya Jauhal <vanyajauhal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> I'm Vanya, from India. I'm a candidate for OPW Round9 internship with
>> evergreen.
>>
>> While discussing the idea of Awesome Box integration with Evergreen,
>> Kathy and I discussed the possibility of making the Evergreen support for
>> Awesome Box more interpretive using Artificial Intelligence.
>>
>> What if we could train the system to give weightage to people's "awesome"
>> tags on items, depending upon how much their previous tags are appreciated
>> by other people.
>>
>> For example: Let's say you tag a book to be awesome. Now, if 100 other
>> people check that book in, and (lets say) 80 of them also tag it to be
>> awesome- it will mean that your opinion matches a majority of people. On
>> the other hand, if 100 other people check that book in and (say) only 5 of
>> them tag it as awesome, this would mean that your awesome tag is not in
>> coherence with the majority.
>> So, in the former case, your awesome tag can be given more weightage as
>> compared to the latter.
>>
>> Also, the weightage may vary according to genres. So- you may have a good
>> taste in mystery books but your taste in classical literature might not be
>> the same as the majority crowd. So- the weightage of your awesome tag in
>> mystery would be higher than classical literature.
>>
>> We can even extend it to provide recommendations to users depending on
>> their coherence with other users with similar taste.
>>
>> I am looking forward to your suggestions and feedback on this.
>>
>> Thank you for your time
>> Vanya
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
> Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
> York County Library System
>
> “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit
> me.”
> ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
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