not everyone in a professional community can read everything of possible interest, the most common problem we all face is information overload. if you look at hte paper it is based upon a study of another professional community. what you would be doing is collaborative tagging to create your own evolving index for the group as a whole and then voting on the "importance" of any paper entered by someone, but voting and indexing it by those that have read it. the paper suggest that the members would characterize their interests by using the same index to represent themselves and the voting would be summarized by the keys put on the paper. the paper suggests using thurstones law of comparative judgement so one can see the strength of the group agreements by distance between the ranked papers. however, a simple five star rating would work to start with. On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Alexander Furnas <zfurnas@gmail.com>wrote: do it would be books, papers, reports, drafts, or anything on the general topic including maybe standard changes, etc. You are the group that should be using the technology you write about. "A seer upon perceiving a flood should be the first to climb a tree"- kalil gibron A recommender system for what? Academic articles? News of interest? Job
postings? Because I think existing platforms could serve these purposes - we could just create a Air Mendely group or something (does one already exist)? Perhaps an Air subreddit?
That said, I agree that some Air collaborative filtering might be a more useful way to surface things of interest to the community than just email blasts.
On Jun 16, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Murray Turoff wrote:
this group could make a wonderful demonstration by adding a recommender system to your operation. A great phd project
Turoff, M., Hiltz, S.R.: The Future of Professional Communities of Practice. In: Weinhardt, C., Luckner, S., Stößer, J. (eds.) WeB 2008. LNBIP, vol. 22, pp. 144-158. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
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