[mb-devel] Collaborative Filtering: Artist - Artist Relationships (Summer of Code Proposal)

[Robert Kaye]

On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:42 PM, sharon myrtle wrote:
> I've got the following ideas to collect data and generate artist- 
> artist data –
>
> 1)       Scan through all the data sources and write the collected  
> information into files (such as artist details, album details, user  
> details etc).
The MusicBrainz back end runs on a Postgres database server and thus  
I would like keep as much data in the database server as possible. It  
would be best if you could read from the database and write the new  
tables directly into new database tables.

As far as user detailed are concerned you will need to ensure that  
private user data stays private. Private data, such as artist  
subscriptions, can only be used in aggregate, meaning that the final  
data may not contain any personal data. Not that I think this is an  
issue, but your proposal should address that.
> 2)       From these files, create and maintain tables of the  
> various artist names, and corresponding artists with whom he/she is  
> closely related (musically).
>
> 3)       Now we can generate and analyze the relationships between  
> the artists.
I look forward to reading your proposal!

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