Re: MusicBrainzRe: : Where is the linkage?

Simon Reinhardt wrote:
> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> To be clear, the resource URI associated with the resource 
>> description page: 
>> <http://kingsley.idehen.name/page/artist/3c79e3ff-f41b-45d8-af26-40151798056b> 
>> is: 
>> <http://kingsley.idehen.name/music/artist/3c79e3ff-f41b-45d8-af26-40151798056b>  
>> (*we need to add the missing foaf:primarytopic link to the 
>> description page*).
>>
>> Also currently missing is an "owl:sameAs" triple that express link 
>> to: 
>> <http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3c79e3ff-f41b-45d8-af26-40151798056b>  
>> (should they someday publish RDF based Linked Data).
>>
>
> Btw, be aware that MusicBrainz is in the process of changing a lot of 
> things. First, they're currently re-writing the frontend with a 
> different template engine to make the code cleaner and make it more 
> attractive for new developers, allow for i18n, etc. If you're planning 
> to bring RDFa to their pages, now's the time. ;-)
> After that they will tackle major schema changes that will add new 
> resource types and change the semantics of the existing types quite 
> considerably. Just to make you aware that things might not be very 
> stable, looking into the future.
>
> Another way of merging descriptions of MusicBrainz linked data is by 
> using MusicBrainz identifier properties (to be added to the Music 
> Ontology) that would be IFPs pointing to the UUIDs directly.
Yes, this is also where UMBEL can help. For instance the homepage 
property is an IFP, ditto a few others. UMBEL and a middle layer binding 
ontology delivers value in this regard.

Note, Yves, Fred, and other people from the Music Ontology effort will 
naturally track the MBZ evolution in concert with us etc. :-)

Kingsley
>
> Simon
>
>


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Received on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:06:19 UTC