[mb-devel] Collaborative Filtering: Artist - Artist Relationships

[Robert Kaye]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:

> I think entering the subjective area (genres, ratings, comments) would
> be detrimental, because it would dilute the focus. It is better, I
> think, that MusicBrainz retains its objective focus, and a separate
> project would handle the subjective aspect, using the MusicBrainz data
> through the web service (or a more direct link) to anchor user input.

I disagree.

I think having a tagging system or even a rating system would give us  
valuable data to make our editing system for objective data that much  
more efficient. For instance, one of the age old complaints for the  
voting system is that people have to look at music that is outside  
their general scope of knowledge. Good point -- a lot of the edits I  
look at are about artists I've never heard about.

Gathering tags, for instance, would allow the user to set a number of  
tags that define the area they want to help peer review. Thus any  
data that changes in the scope defined by those tags could be laid in  
front of that user. While it may not be perfect I suspect that it  
would greatly narrow the scope of moderations and let people focus  
more on their area of expertise.

Searching, music discovery, listener discover are all fun things that  
can be made possible with subjective data. I agree that we'll have to  
make sure that people who want a objective experience can have that  
without having to participate in the subjective. And vice versa. The  
same goes for the hosting side of things. I want to make sure that  
one can exist without the other -- for instance, if the tag server  
gets bogged down, the objective data server should still do its job.

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Robert Kaye     --     rob at eorbit.net     --    http://mayhem-chaos.net


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