The blockchain art market is partitioned around the roles of artists and collectors and highly concentrated among a few prominent figures.We hence propose to adapt Kleinberg's authority/hub HITS(Hyperlink-Induced ...The blockchain art market is partitioned around the roles of artists and collectors and highly concentrated among a few prominent figures.We hence propose to adapt Kleinberg's authority/hub HITS(Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search)method to rate artists and collectors in the art context.This seems a reasonable choice since the original method deftly defines its scores in terms of a mutual recursive relationship between authorities/artists—the miners of information/art,and hubs/collectors—the assemblers of such information/art.We evaluated the proposed method on the collector-artist network of SuperRare gallery,the major crypto art marketplace.We found that the proposed artist and collector metrics are weakly correlated with other networks science metrics like degree and strength.This hints at the possibility of coupling different measures in order to profile active users of the gallery and suggests investment strategies with different risk/reward ratios for collectors as well as marketing strategies with different targets for artists.展开更多
文摘The blockchain art market is partitioned around the roles of artists and collectors and highly concentrated among a few prominent figures.We hence propose to adapt Kleinberg's authority/hub HITS(Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search)method to rate artists and collectors in the art context.This seems a reasonable choice since the original method deftly defines its scores in terms of a mutual recursive relationship between authorities/artists—the miners of information/art,and hubs/collectors—the assemblers of such information/art.We evaluated the proposed method on the collector-artist network of SuperRare gallery,the major crypto art marketplace.We found that the proposed artist and collector metrics are weakly correlated with other networks science metrics like degree and strength.This hints at the possibility of coupling different measures in order to profile active users of the gallery and suggests investment strategies with different risk/reward ratios for collectors as well as marketing strategies with different targets for artists.
