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...

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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