Poet Tips - A Brief Introduction
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Introducing Poet Tips, the crowd-sourced poetry recommendation website that aims to help you find your next favourite poet.
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Poet Tips - A Brief Introduction
- 1. Poet Tips FIND YOUR NEXT FAVOURITE POET
- 2. Impetus a) Shorten the distance between knowing what poets you like and making great discoveries of new poets to read b) Map the vast interconnectedness, over time and across the globe, of poets and their influences c) Use the latest technology and techniques such as crowd-sourcing and data science to better the world of poetry overall
- 3. The Problem a) People are not reading enough poetry b) Good poetry has something to do with quality, but is also largely a matter of taste c) Finding quality poetry that you enjoy, which inspires you to seek out more of the same, requires a large investment of time and energy for the average person d) This is partly because the average person does not have access to a trusted and knowledgeable friend who can make customised recommendations e) As a result, the average person is often left feeling they either don't like, or don't understand, contemporary poetry (or both)
- 4. Goal a) Move people from grey to white b) Move people from white to blue c) Increase engagement with poetry
- 5. Goal a) Move people from grey to white b) Move people from white to blue c) Increase engagement with poetry “I DON’T GET POETRY”
- 6. Similar Models a) Pandora mapped the "music genome" and became hugely successful as a music recommendation service; Spotify in the UK soon followed suit b) Wikipedia lets people both contribute and benefit from expertise on a vast range of topics c) Recommendations engines like that at Amazon are proprietary and commercially-motivated d) The main idea behind "crowd-sourcing" is that our collective knowledge, shared, becomes a vast and valuable repository--and this "hive mind" is smarter than any one of us individually
- 7. Timeline 24 February 2016 Invitation-only Private Beta group begins testing 28 March 2016 Public Beta launches, seeded by 1,000 users contributing nearly 3,000 poets and over 4,000 votes 13 April 2016 Poet tips goes viral, gaining over 20,000 tips in less than five days via poets sharing about it on social media
- 8. Timeline
- 9. Timeline nearly 15,000 users in over 100 countries have contributed over 5,000 poets and 40,000 tips Currently
- 14. The Team Robert Peake Technology Executive and poet (London, UK) Rebecca Roach MFA candidate turned entrepreneur, poet (Indiana, USA) Michael Dalvean Professor, creator of Poetry Assessor and Jazz Musician (Canberra, Australia) Jennifer Moore Professor and poet (Ohio, USA)
- 15. Feedback
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- 19. Applications a) Education: Teaching students to discover and reflect upon their own tastes b) Library Sciences: Solving the "Catch-22" of the card catalogue (i.e. that you have to know what you want before you go searching for it) c) Digital Humanities: mapping the "poetry genome" by combining the latest techniques in computational linguistics and network graph theory d) Other forms of research an enquiry