Comments on: Rocking out on Pandora! http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/ An ongoing conversation among librarians with differing perspectives (public, academic, school, consortial, youth) but one shared goal: ensuring the health and relevance of libraries. [insert your own gardening metaphor here] Fri, 17 May 2013 18:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: beautemdreviews.net http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-7254 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:44:09 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-7254 Howdy terrific website! Does running a blog such as this require a great deal of work?

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]]> By: Randy http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-7246 Mon, 13 May 2013 06:16:02 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-7246 I seldom leave remarks, however i did some searching and wound up here Rocking out on Pandora!
| Library Garden. And I do have 2 questions
for you if it’s allright. Could it be simply me or does it look like some of the comments come across like they are left by brain dead individuals? :-P And, if you are posting at other sites, I’d like to keep up with anything new you have to
post. Would you list of every one of all your public sites like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?

]]> By: Christina http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-7244 Fri, 10 May 2013 09:30:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-7244 Excellent post. I’m dealing with a few of these issues as well..

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]]> By: Anonymous http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-5507 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:01:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-5507 Absolutely it’s being worked on. BookLamp.org – go and watch the video on the site. They’re currently talking to Amazon.com and Google.

Anyway, I know this topic is old, but there you go. It’s as close to a Book Genome Project that exists.

]]> By: F.G. http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-5333 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:45:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-5333 Hi! You know, I found this Blog because I typed “Book Genoma Project” on google. I was listening to Pandora and had exactly the same idea. Are you working on it? Do you know if someone is?

F. G.

]]> By: emily http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-5184 Mon, 01 May 2006 17:01:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-5184 Great post–and nice observation by librarything about the differences in approaches between Pandora and LastFM. Pandora aims to group music by inherent similarities (e.g., “strong female vocalist,” “mild syncopation,” and, for some reason “extensive vamping,” which seems to apply to many of my favorite tunes), while LastFM takes a social approach: if you like band X, and 23 out of 25 people who enjoy band X also enjoy band Y, you’ll probably like band Y too.

So what WOULD a book genome project look like? For nonfiction, we might have it down: subject headings! (At least in the Pandora sense of “genome.”) But subject analysis of fiction is pretty poor in most library catalogs. Amazon often takes the LastFM approach: “readers who bought X also purchased…”

Interesting stuff.

]]> By: LibraryThing http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-5181 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:51:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-5181 I hope you enjoy the tour. If you want to talk about it, shoot me an email.

One attempt to do what you propose is “StoryCode” (StoryCode.com and co.uk). You code novels according to certain criteria, and then the system matches them up. It’s an interesting idea, and I hope to syndicate their recommendations alongside LT’s, but in general, I think LT does a much better job of generating recommendations. LT gets at the content idea by generating suggestions based upon “similar tagging.” With 3.6 million tags, a lot of books now have enough to evaluate whether tagging produces good recommendations. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Ultimately, what is the DNA of a book? If you enjoyed Bel Canto, do you want to read other novels about opera and Latin American strife? I think you’re really getting into issues of taste and style. It’s hard for regular readers to code books that way. Why I love Nabokov isn’t a series of drop-down boxes, it’s an essay.

Ultimately, I think “people who own/buy/read X also own/buy/read Y” is the best way to get at the issue. I’m not too familiar with Pandora, but that’s how Last.fm does it, and they’re matching is similarly touted. I also think LibraryThing, which tracks ownership and readership, gets it right more often than Amazon, which tracks purchase patterns.

Considering that LibraryThing is one guy with no funding, that’s quite something, I think.

]]> By: Janie L. Hermann http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2/#comment-5180 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:20:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2006/04/27/rocking-out-on-pandora-2#comment-5180 Ben: Thanks for the link to LibraryThing, I had yet to stumble across this on my wanderings. Looks like I will be in for some fun this weekend as I explore how it works.

It does seem to be very similar to what I had in mind. But still, I am not sure if it is getting at what is the “essence” of books. Glad you think my Book Genome Project might still be worthwhile even with LibraryThing doing its thing.

Oh, and I also noticed that when you quoted me on your blog that I had made a typo in my post [up on instead of upon]. It is what I get for blogging after midnight — oops.

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