Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-10 Thread George Hamilton
Scott, John I see the difference between the recommender system, developed by HP, and a rating system we are thinking about (and we are currently only thinking about it, it may be that the project would be happy with the recommender system) as: 1) In a rating system privileged users input the

Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-10 Thread Desmond Elliott
George, The recommender system project at HP Labs is a research project and has no targeted release date, yet; we are planning to release the code as an add-on in the future. A technical report will be published which explains what we have done and how we have done it. I'll send an email to

Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-09 Thread Scott Phillips
George, This been an often requested feature that is well suited for Manakin. I know several people have it on their to-do list but none have started working on a project of this type. I think several would appreciate Edinburgh being able to take the lead on this. Scott-- On Apr 7,

Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-09 Thread John S. Erickson
I don't understand why an item rating system would be well-suited for manakin --- even though I'm wearing the Manakin T-Shirt today! ;) I see item rating as a function of a recommender system (c.f. the work by Minho or HPLabs) and thus deeper than interface... Yes, the manner and style in

Re: [Dspace-tech] item rating system

2008-04-09 Thread Scott Phillips
John, Absolutely, I when I said well suited for manakin I meant in the presentation of the rating system using the modularity provided by the framework. So it can be build as an addon aspect without necessarily being integrated into the core of dspace. I've only heard a few whispers