ROADMAP

The following is the approximate Roadmap for development of OpenRecommender (with release dates in brackets):

1. Schemas (COMPLETED: 2011-01-26)

• XML Schema
• JSON Schema
• RDF Schema

2. Semantics (COMPLETED: 2011-11-11)

• Taxonomy
• Recommendation Ontology (lead by Bob Ferris and Kurt Jacobson)
• MobileTV Ontology

3. Social Media & Linked Data Crawler (DUE: 2012-06-30)

1. Activity: FriendFeed (ActivityStreams)
2. Audio: iTunes, Radio Shoutcast and Music Last.FM
3. Device: WURFL (via TeraWURFL)
4. Discussion: Twitter
5. Education: RateMyProfessors
6. Environment: WorldWeather API
7. Event: Eventful
8. Food: BigOven API
9. Image: Flickr
10. Language: i18n + WordReference
11. License: OSS licenses + Boliven
12. Money: Currency Converter
13. News: RSS + Yahoo! YQL
14. Organization: Crunchbase and DMOZ
15. Person: Facebook and NNDB
16. Place: l10n + GeoNames + CIA World Factbook
17. Product: Amazon
18. Profession: LinkedIN
19. Situation: Face recognition/sentiment analysis, moods, emoticons, etc
20. Species: BBC Wildlife
21. Text: NLP (OpenCalais) & Search (Google Data API)
22. Unit: UnitCoverter
23. Universe: SkyMap
24. Video: YouTube, Movie: IMDB and TV: SchedulesDirect

4. Algorithm refinement (ESTIMATED: 2012-12-12)

• Randomization
• LaBarrie Theory
• Fuzzy String-Matching
• Slope One (User-based Collaborative Filter)
• Single-Value Decomposition (Item-based Collaborative Filter)
• Bayesian Clustering
• K-Nearest Neighbour
• Neural Network

5. Sample Rich Client Interface (DUE: 2012-12-21)

• Mahout bridge to solve cold-start (DUE: 2012-12-01)
• RESTful Web Service API (DUE: 2012-12-12)
• LayerPlayer 3.0 (DUE: 2011-12-21)