On 05/01/16 02:31 AM, dave miller wrote: > Hi Rob > I'm curious - what's happening here and how does it work?
What's happening: This is a sketch of a system to operationalize curation. It's an automatic curator, or at least an automatic curation tool. Feed it an artist's name and it recommends a show of similar artists, explaining what makes them similar. How It works: The blog post is the output of a script that finds similar artists to a specified artist (in this case Andy Warhol) using the artsy.net api : https://developers.artsy.net/ Artsy is an art information site that classifies and tags artworks with a set of tags they've called "art genomes", like "music genomes" - https://www.artsy.net/categories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project So the script takes the specified artist name, hits the artsy.net api to find the artist that artsy's database thinks are the most similar, and gets their information. It then uses the tags to identify which artists are the most similar to the specified artist, and lists them in decreasing order of similarity. And finally it takes a count of all the tags and uses the most common ones to describe what the show is about. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
