[Air-L] the next step

[Sean Goggins]

A paper abstract to the list would be helpful, along with a clear
statement about how recommenders might be used here.  In terms of
scholarly impact, there are efforts being made (this week) at the acm
altmetrics workshop to imagine new ways of measurement.

Group lens at Minnesota published a good deal about recommenders a
decade ago. There is now an acm conference dedicated to recommenders.
One challenge is that starring systems tend to compress ratings near
the top in practice.

See the links below.

http://chronicle.com/article/As-Scholarship-Goes-Digital/130482/

http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics12/

http://recsys.acm.org/2012/

Thanks!

Sean P. Goggins, Ph.D
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On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:16, Meelis Ojasild <meelis.ojasild at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps it's my subjective angle and isn't necessarily representative, but
> for me it's rather weird that the interactions take place through an e-mail
> list. It feels like the '90s.
>
> Why aren't we using better tools like wikis, blogs, collaborative blogs
> etc? It would solve the tagging and recommendation problem as well.
>
> Meelis
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Murray Turoff <murray.turoff at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>> Information Systems, NJIT
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