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Re: MusicBrainzRe: : Where is the linkage?

From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:47:12 -0500
Message-ID: <499C9E00.4060307@openlinksw.com>
To: Robert Kaye <rob@eorbit.net>
CC: music-ontology-specification-group@googlegroups.com, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>, Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Robert Kaye wrote:
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> On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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>>  (should they someday publish RDF based Linked Data).
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>
> We have been publishing RDF data since 2001 and its really hurt our 
> adoption rate early on, so we switched to XML which has enjoyed a 
> great take-up:
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>    http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=374
>
> Take a look at the RDF vs XML lines in the traffic graph. Given that, 
> I've been weary of putting any more energy into any RDF based 
> solution. However, if someone would like to contribute more modern RDF 
> support, I would very much consider including that support into 
> MusicBrainz. I just can't justify spending our very few resources 
> working on RDF related projects. :-(
I am sure an number of us will help.

The drinks are absolutely on you when you see that graph trend skews 
towards those de-referencable URIs form your domain. Remember, this race 
is a marathon not a sprint :-)



Kingsley
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