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

[Jan van Thiel]

Hi,

Great idea!

I do have some remarks as to why some data sources might not work as
well as anticipated:

On 3/22/07, sharon myrtle <sharon.myrtle at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as data sources are concerned, these are the places where we could
> search for relationships between two artists
>
> 1)       Aritist Albums - two artists that are on a compilation together are
> likely to be somewhat similar.

There are also a lot of releases that just group music based on
release dates ("Best of the sixties", "Best of 2006"), not on
similarity.

> 2)       Search Logs - one user searching for a number of artists also gives
> an indication of similarity.

I actually use the search mostly for editing purposes.

> 3)       Artist Subscription - the artists that MusicBrainz users subscribe
> should also yield some information.

To a certain degree; I am for example subscribed to all artists with
Dutch language titles to check capitalization etc. These artists cover
a lot of genres.

Anyway: nice ideas!

Jan (zout)