Setting up the Recommender Engine in Digital Hive

The Digital Hive recommendation engine collects data on the user’s actions. Then uses this data to curate a list of artifact suggestions that the user may be interested in or may need in the future.

Before you begin

• Ensure that IQ has been installed.

Procedure

1. At the top right corner of the Digital Hive interface, click the applications icon (). In the Applications box that appears, click the Administration icon.
   The Digital Hive Admin Panel page opens.
2. In the menubar, click Systems.
   The Systems page opens.
3. In the left navigation panel, select IQ.
   The Systems > IQ page opens.
4. Click the toggle to Enable Recommendations.
   The page displays configuration settings.
   
5. The fields located under Settings have been pre-filled, no changes are needed to be made.
   Note: If you wish to obtain the Access Key, navigate to the Theia installation folder on your device. Navigate to the IQ folder where the Access Key note is located.

To activate the Recommender engine, follow the steps in Scheduling the Training Status.

Scheduling the Training Status is crucial for the Recommendation Engine to provide accurate recommendations.

Befor you begin

• Ensure that at least two connectors have been inputted into Digital Hive.
• To add a connector follow the steps in Adding a New Connector.
• Ensure that Digital Hive has been in use for a couple hours for the Recommendation Engine to be able to collect an efficient amount of user data.

Procedure

1. At the top right corner of the Digital Hive interface, click the applications icon (). In the Applications box that appears, click the Administration icon.
   The Digital Hive Admin Panel page opens.
2. In the menubar, click Systems.
   The Systems page opens.
3. In the left navigation panel, select IQ.
   The Systems > IQ page opens.
4. Select Setup under the Training Status section.
   
5. In the pop-up, select the desired training times.
   
6. The Training Status updates and displays the Current status, Last training time, and Next training time.
   
7. Once the Training process completes, the Recommender Engine will deploy to online.

If you have been running Digital Hive previously and recently updated the application, click on Run post-upgrade import of training data. This will allow Digital Hive to import the user activity from the previous version into the IQ, as well as update the indexing.
Note: Based on the amount of Connectors your application currently has it may take a short while to import all the data into the IQ.

This section will assist you in navigating to the list of the provided recommendations in the Recommended for you box.

Procedure

1. At the top right corner of the Digital Hive interface, click the applications icon ().In the Applications box that appears, click the Folder Browser icon.
   The Folder Browser opens.
   
2. At the top of the Folder Browser, click on the Recommender icon ().
   The folder browser will update with the Recommended for you box on the bottom left corner.
   
3. To move to a larger view of the Recommendation results, select Show all.
4. Right click on an artifact to display a set of additional actions.
5. Click on the Similar to this icon.
   The page updates with a new list of similar recommendations to the artifact selected.