Re: ArtistData...

Howdy,

I think they could become a significant nexus for artist-related data, and
an important agent for the democratization of the semantic technologies.

A huge amount of artists rely on social networks and music sites for
promotion and distribution.

Entering contents on such sites is a painfully tedious process (i.e. large
number of services / no standards / so very few importers), and given the
trends it looks as if it's only gonna get worse, until something is done. In
other words, having the possibility to "post once, publish everywhere" is
godsend.

Thus the publishing service that ArtistData is offering has the potential to
interest a huge amount of artists, and become a vital part of their
organizations.


For now ArtistData only handle shows, but they have plans to add "blogs,
news, and more in the upcoming months" (hopefully, "more" means music
metadata, photos, videos, contacts, ...).

So, assuming that they're successful, then they will become a kind of funnel
in which artists pour their contents, and via which music and social sites
get fed. And once the funnel is made then it's easy to make it available to
the general public also. Thus a lot of data will go through their hands
before reaching their partner sites, and they'll have the weight of a huge
amount of users behind them, so they'll be in a very good position to
propose standards (they most probably will have to at some point or another
if they want to keep their hair), and generally influence how music and
social sites handle and represent data on their side.

So, to restate my original message in less inspired language, it would
surely be interesting to have ArtistData adopt RDF and the semantic
technologies.

Thus being said, ladies and gents, have a nice day (and might I add a
belated happy birthday to K).

Take care,
Chris
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello!
>
> > Would be interesting to have the following MusicOntologized and
> > LinkingOpenData-ed :
> >
> > https://www.artistdata.com/us/howitworks
>
> Looks nice - a bit like ping.fm, but for music-related data :-)
> However, I am not sure what there is to RDFize and interlink there, as
> the data is posted to multiple sites (e.g. eventful, last.fm etc.) but
> not available directly or stored on artistdata.com?
>
> I am guessing writing a more complete linked data wrapper to the
> last.fm api than the one at http://dbtune.org/last-fm/ could allow us
> to interlink data posted through artistdata.com?
>
> Cheers!
> y
>
> >
> > Have fun !
> > Chris
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Christopher Stewart
> >
> > Rock : http://myspace.com/poligraf
> > Micro-Funding : http://poligraf.wordpress.com/
> >
> > >
> >
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