Re: ArtistData...

Christopher Stewart wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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
>     <http://last.fm> etc.) but
>     not available directly or stored on artistdata.com
>     <http://artistdata.com>?
>
>     I am guessing writing a more complete linked data wrapper to the
>     last.fm <http://last.fm> api than the one at
>     http://dbtune.org/last-fm/ could allow us
>     to interlink data posted through artistdata.com
>     <http://artistdata.com>?
>
>     Cheers!
>     y
>
>     >
>     > Have fun !
>     > Chris
>     >
>     > __________________________________________________
>     > Christopher Stewart
>     >
>     > Rock : http://myspace.com/poligraf
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>     >
>     > >
>     >
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Chris,

Do they have an API ?

Do they have Feeds that expose public versions of their aggregated data?

The above are the critical pieces re. RDF-ization.


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Received on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:09:24 UTC