[Air-L] the next step

[Murray Turoff]

not everyone in a professional community can read everything of possible
interest, the most common problem we all face is information overload.  if
you look at hte paper it is based upon a study of another professional
community.

what you would be doing is collaborative tagging to create your own
evolving index for the group as a whole and then voting on the "importance"
of any paper entered by someone, but voting and indexing it by those that
have read it.  the paper suggest that the members would characterize their
interests by using the same index to represent themselves and the voting
would be summarized by the  keys put on the paper.

the paper suggests using thurstones law of comparative judgement so one can
see the strength of the group agreements by distance between the ranked
papers.  however, a simple five star rating would work to start with.
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Alexander Furnas <zfurnas at gmail.com>wrote:

do it would be books, papers, reports, drafts, or anything on the general
topic including maybe standard changes, etc.

You are the group that should be using the technology you write about.
"A seer upon perceiving a flood should be the first to climb a tree"- kalil
gibron

A recommender system for what? Academic articles? News of interest? Job
> postings?
> Because I think existing platforms could serve these purposes - we could
> just create a Air Mendely group or something (does one already exist)?
> Perhaps an Air subreddit?
>
> That said, I agree that some Air collaborative filtering might be a more
> useful way to surface things of interest to the community than just email
> blasts.
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Murray Turoff wrote:
>
> > this group could make a wonderful demonstration by adding
> > a recommender system to your operation.   A great phd project
> >
> > Turoff, M., Hiltz, S.R.: The Future of Professional Communities of
> Practice.
> > In: Weinhardt, C., Luckner, S., Stößer, J. (eds.) WeB 2008. LNBIP, vol.
> 22,
> > pp. 144-158. Springer-Verlag,  Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
> >
> > You would be the perfect group to demonstrate the benefits of adding that
> > capability.
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