Re: What about music-related URIs???

I guess it will be as soon as we actually send them a  patch :-) I did
some work on that last year (just rdf/xml) but as nick said, the
codebase has been changing very fast since then... We should gather
efforts  once the big scary release is out and make it happen!

Cheers,
Y

On 9/6/09, Kurt J <kurtjx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
>> It is a dilemma indeed. I think we need to make a effort to get RDF/
>> RDFa on to musicbrainz.org and then we can use the 'proper' URIs. I
>> have been holding back from doing this because the codebase has been
>> changing so much - but there is a big new release coming soon....
>
> i like using the actual musicbrainz URIs as well.  to be clear, the
> artist URI would be of the form
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/<mbid number>
>
> similarly the track URI would be
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/track/<mbid number>
>
> and the release (record) URI would be
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/<mbid number>
>
> i've noticed that currently the release-based URIs return 404 unless
> you put '.html' on the end
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/3de4b060-3930-4d6f-8c4f-7135b7d70fb6  ->  404
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/3de4b060-3930-4d6f-8c4f-7135b7d70fb6.html
> -> page about this release
>
> track and artist URIs seem to redirect sensibly to a human-readable page.
>
> So do you advocate using the Musicbrainz 'proper' URIs now?  Any guess
> on how soon they might include RDF(a) ?
>
> -Kurt J
>
>

Received on Sunday, 6 September 2009 16:02:28 UTC