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

[Ollie Charles]

A fair point which could work, but I, like most other "active"
contributers are subscribed to all the artists they care about, and
we're contacted by the MB Bot when edits are entered to these artists.

The tagging system would introduce unneccessary complexity, and you'd
still have to go around tagging artists in the first place for the
system to work. Also, you'd need to ensure the tags are valid and
comply with some guidelines, so then you'd have to moderate the
tagging as well.

Just my quick thoughts,
Oliver Charles

On 23/03/07, Robert Kaye <rob at eorbit.net> wrote:
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> On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
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> I think entering the subjective area (genres, ratings, comments) would
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> be detrimental, because it would dilute the focus. It is better, I
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> think, that MusicBrainz retains its objective focus, and a separate
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> project would handle the subjective aspect, using the MusicBrainz data
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> through the web service (or a more direct link) to anchor user input.
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> I disagree.
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> 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.
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> 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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