I agree with once third party companies get involved, that could become a privacy issue. Especially if patrons can't opt out easily. Goodreads is probably a good compromise if third parties would have to be involved to do it.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:16 PM Terran McCanna < tmcca...@georgialibraries.org> wrote: > I feel fairly certain this would be a pretty massive project to come up > with a way to determine recommendations and may or may not be worth the > time and development expense since there are third party vendors that > already do similar things as part of their core business. Syndetics and > NoveList added content will both provide recommendations at the title or > author level (ie, you look up a book you liked and it will recommend others > that are available to you through the library), and then there are other > companies that can generate recommendations based on personal reading > history - that is going to depend on providing them with a certain amount > of user data though, and that gets really tricky with patron > confidentiality. > > Of course, users can also download their reading history as a CSV file and > upload it to GoodReads themselves if they are somewhat savvy - this could > probably made easier with a relatively small development project to allow > patrons to export their booklist in a format that was specifically > compatible to goodreads so they wouldn't have to do any editing to it > (unless they wanted to) after they downloaded it. > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM Johnathon Redmon via Evergreen-general < > evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote: > >> I'm a cataloger, not a programmer so I don't know how reasonable (or >> possible) this is. But ever since I first heard about the idea of >> carousels, I've dreamed of being able to log into my patron account and >> have a netflix style recommendation carousel hooked on to an algorithm that >> suggests items based on the 1xx, 6xx and 7xx marc fields of items you've >> recently checked out. What would be the possibility of such a feature, and >> what kind of hurdles would have to be jumped to do this? >> >> >> -- >> Johnathon Redmon >> Technical Services Cataloging Clerk >> Monticello Union-Township Public Library >> 321 W. Broadway St. >> Monticello, IN 47960 >> _______________________________________________ >> Evergreen-general mailing list >> Evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org >> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-general >> > -- Johnathon Redmon Technical Services Cataloging Clerk Monticello Union-Township Public Library 321 W. Broadway St. Monticello, IN 47960
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