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How about feeding back from web request stats? Things that get pulled more often are probably more popular. It's admittedly not very clever, but it would be easy to implement... --- A. Soroka Digital Research and Scholarship R & D the University of Virginia Library On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Ed Summers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, LeVan,Ralph <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> For VIAF, rankings are calculated based on the number of institutions >> that have controlled that name and the amount of attention the >> institutions have given to that name (e.g. size of their respective name >> authority records). > > Neat. It would be great to have some external dataset to use in > ranking LCSH suggestions at id.loc.gov. But at the moment it's a > simple mysql db loaded up with some MARC LCSH data. I guess it could > do something smart with PageRank-like ranking of 'super-concepts' > (concepts that are linked to a lot)...but that would've taken longer > than 20 minutes :-) > > //Ed