Re: ArtistData...

Hey,

Do they have an API ?
>
> Do they have Feeds that expose public versions of their aggregated data?
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> The above are the critical pieces re. RDF-ization.
>

I agree that those are critical pieces, yet I can see neither thus far...

I have directed their co-founder and president (Brenden Mulligan) towards
some of the LOD sites. I'll discuss further with him and when/if there's
interest I'll reporting here, or invite him to join the thread...

Chris


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

> 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
>>    > Micro-Funding : http://poligraf.wordpress.com/
>>    >
>>    > >
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> Do they have an API ?
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> Do they have Feeds that expose public versions of their aggregated data?
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> The above are the critical pieces re. RDF-ization.
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