MyMedia Framework

The MyMedia toolkit was developed to be an extensible software framework for multimedia recommendation, incorporating cutting edge recommender algorithms and metadata enrichment. This C# developed research project makes it easier to study, develop and deploy personalization technology.

Users and implementers of multimedia today face a common problem: how to deal with the “crisis of choice” that exists when very many different forms of multimedia are presented to users. In such circumstances search is not a complete solution, recommendation can improve the user experience. However there are few recommender system solutions that are sufficiently versatile.

The MyMedia software toolkit is the outcome of an international collaboration to develop an extensible software framework for multimedia recommendation, incorporating cutting edge recommender algorithms, metadata enrichment, and software design. It will be tested in field trials under realistic conditions while being made available to the research community. This software provides a structured approach to personalization, as well as reusable reference implementations of popular recommendation and enrichment algorithms.