Book Genome Project
From Library Garden, Rocking Out on Pandora:
What I like best about Pandora (besides the fact that it always seems to play music that I like based upon one suggestion) is their objective to “capture the essence of music at the fundamental level”. They really seem to be doing it. How? By assigning a variety of attributes to songs that get at the core of what the music is really about and what people might like about that particular song.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that was freely available on the web and simple to use that captured “the essence” of books?
FYI, Pandora lets you give it the name of a piece of music you like, and it’ll play other songs that you’ll probably like as well. I haven’t tried it out yet (the cable on my headphones is too short, and so I have to hunch over to listen to anything), but it sounds really cool. It’s based on the Music Genome Project.
So, I’m wondering how much LibraryThing is already doing this. The MGP apparently has over 400 attributes listed, and I doubt LibraryThing is that extensive (at least not yet). It’s a really interesting concept, though, and I think it’s something that ought to be done.
