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Seems more akin to a user-adjustable recommendation algorithm like Amazon or Netflix uses. Sometimes you want "what other users looked at after searching for t
by imglorp 7y ago
Seems more akin to a user-adjustable recommendation algorithm like Amazon or Netflix uses. Sometimes you want "what other users looked at after searching for this book," or "books with many similar citations," or "books with a similar wordvec distance."
- majormajor 7y agoThere serendipity encountered in the stories in this thread is essentially just different on one axis: it's not "personalized" or otherwise user-aware, it's content-driven active organization and presentation. That system can have its own ways of breaking down - consider trying to curate a collection of books on a topic you don't know about - but it gets at the limits of our current algorithmic approaches. Our systems don't know the content itself, just the feedback various others give about the content.
- cameronbrown 7y agoI think a future function of the librarian will be virtual curation more and more (tagging, categorisation, etc..). Similar to what the archive.org people are doing.