Re: Call for maintainers - Musicbrainz RDFa markup

Perl with Catalyst and Template Toolkit

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Server


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Joshan Mahmud <joshan.mahmud@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Could I ask the question of what the code base is written in?
>
> Cheers
> Josh
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Alexandre Passant <alex@seevl.net> wrote:
>
>> Hey
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Barry Norton <barrynorton@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Yves, thanks for this call-to-arms: one I also just made yesterday at
>>> the ESWC Summer School, where we're busy this week with lots of music-based
>>> Linked Data teaching, including using the MusicBrainz R2RML mappings [1]
>>> that also owe their existence to the LinkedBrainz project.
>>>
>>> To be clear about the relationship, LinkedBrainz developed D2RQ mappings
>>> alongside the perl code to embed RDFa in the HTML generation process in the
>>> MusicBrainz codeset. Since then, as part of the EUCLID project, I have
>>> transitioned the mappings to the R2RML standard and found a couple of
>>> willing contributors. Unfortunately none of us feel qualified to keep the
>>> RDFa in sync.
>>>
>>
>> I'm interested in maintaining the RDFa - as just posted on the MBZ blog,
>> pending I can grasp the codebase and the way mappings are generated in the
>> HTML.
>> What you're saying is that the way it should work is: MBZ schema change
>> => R2RML changes => RDFa change?
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>>
>>> One solution is to find someone who can, and come together to keep the
>>> two in sync (already through 3+ significant musicbrainz RDBMS schema
>>> changes since the LinkedBrainz project); another is (which would be very
>>> sad) to lose the RDFa and re-examine the decision whether separate
>>> RDF-resolvable resources could be provided at MB.org or elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Barry
>>>
>>> [1] github.com/LinkedBrainz/MusicBrainz-R2RML
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Musicbrainz is a large music database and currently exposes a large
>>>> amount of data as RDFa, accounting for quite a big (and useful) part
>>>> of the Linked Data cloud. However they're lacking someone to maintain
>>>> it going forward, to adapt it to previous and upcoming schema changes:
>>>>
>>>>   http://blog.musicbrainz.org/2013/09/03/our-rdfa-dilemma/
>>>>
>>>> Please contact me (or the Musicbrainz development team directly) if
>>>> you'd like to take this on and make a significant contribution to the
>>>> Linked Data cloud :)
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Yves
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