Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner
PhD student at Graz University of Technology and developer/IT project manager at the University of Graz focusing on recommender systems for digital humanities and the Monasterium.net project.
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Nov 23, 2025 • 37min
Designing Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities
Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner is a PhD student at Graz University of Technology, specializing in recommender systems for digital humanities projects like Monasterium.net. He discusses why traditional recommenders fail in complex digital archives, addressing the diverse needs of users from historians to genealogists. Florian elaborates on technical challenges such as sparse interaction matrices and multi-modal similarity approaches. The conversation also highlights the importance of balancing serendipity and utility in recommendations and the unique evaluation metrics for non-commercial domains.
