- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:25:17 -0500
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- CC: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>, Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, Robert Kaye <rob@eorbit.net>, music-ontology-specification-group@googlegroups.com
Dan Brickley wrote: > 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 > > -- > http://danbri.org/ > > Note, the HTML pages describing resources from the LOD instance will include RDFa :-) This is already the case for any of the resource descriptions that you see via the sponging activities in play at: http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/<info-resource-url> . Example: 1. http://kingsley.idehen.name/page/artist/3c79e3ff-f41b-45d8-af26-40151798056b - Johnny Clarke -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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