Re: ArtistData...

Ho,

Quoting M. Mulligan :

"We have an API in the works to be completed in Q1 2009. We are also
bringing on a VP Tech around the same time, so would you mind touching back
then and we can talk more about this?  It's a little over my head, although
I get and support the general idea."

Thus an opening and a date for 2009 we have.

Have fun,
Chris


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Christopher Stewart <
christopher.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> 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.
>>
>
> 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 ?
>>
>> Do they have Feeds that expose public versions of their aggregated data?
>>
>> The above are the critical pieces re. RDF-ization.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen       Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
>> President & CEO OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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