Re: MusicBrainzRe: : Where is the linkage?

On 17/2/09 23:41, Yves Raimond wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Dan Brickley<danbri@danbri.org>  wrote:
>> +cc: Robert, Yves
>>
>> On 17/2/09 21:52, Simon Reinhardt wrote:
>>> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>>> We have a new Musicbrainz dump, and it will be integrated into DBpedia
>>>> (I think Georgi is working on this). There will soon be a publicdump
>>>> available to others in the coming days.
>>> Did you consider working with Yves? He spent a lot of time mapping
>>> MusicBrainz' Advanced Relationships to Music Ontology terms already.
>>> Personally I'd prefer if there was a combined effort and *one* mapping
>>> of MB into LOD to make things more consistent. Also having
>>> dereferencable URIs would be nice (which is never going to happen if you
>>> use MB's URIs, given how excited Robert Kaye is about RDF - not).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Simon
>>
>> Well, you never know. Why not ask again? :)
>>
>> Robert - do you have any plans for "perma-link"-style per artist, per album
>> etc. pages at MusicBrainz, which might become canonical reference URLs for
>> the things they describe? (ie. with nice stable URLs). If so, could you be
>> persuaded to include RDFa markup inline in the HTML pages, so the content
>> could be machine-readable too? (or even rdf/xml at a nearby shadow URL). If
>> not, fair enough, there are various candidate services who will probably do
>> something like this. But my preference would be for the identifiers and data
>> to come direct from MusicBrainz if possible. Any thoughts? Yves too, any
>> thoughts on best way forward?
>
> Actually, I have some stale code for mb_server from about 6 month ago
> to provide RDF representations of Musicbrainz artist URIs (well,
> that's a start...). I really need to start working on that again, but
> I definitely hope we can have Linked Data directly at Musicbrainz, at
> some point! Things are beginning to look a bit better on my backlog,
> so hopefully I can revive that work soonish.
>
> RDFa would be  good option!! (/me ashamed to not have thought about it :-( )

Ah, this would be great! Hope you get time to hack on this soon. If you 
need reviewers, help etc., don't hesitate to ask around...

cheers,

Dan

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