- From: Kurt J <kurtjx@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:12:39 +0100
- To: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
- Cc: dataincubator@googlegroups.com, Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
> As a personal project I've been working on a conversion of the discogs > [1] music database into Linked Data [2]. > > The database, which is regularly exported and is under a Public Domain > license, includes medata about approximately 1.2m artists and over > 100k labels, and 1.5m releases, > > The first cut of the conversion, which covers just artists and labels > at this stage, is now available from [2]. The dataset uses a number of > different vocabularies, primarily FOAF and the Music Ontology. It also > links into DbPedia, and the MySpace data exposed from dbtune. The next > round of changes will be to fix up a few outstanding bugs; build links > into the BBC /music website; and conversion of the release data. > There's a substantial amount of data there already, so I thought I'd > announce it for feedback from the community, so bug reports and > feedback appreciated. > > The data is hosted in the Talis Platform under the Connected Commons scheme. > > Cheers, > > L. > > p.s. thats one more thing ticked off the linked data shopping list :) > > [1]. http://www.discogs.com/ > [2]. http://discogs.dataincubator.org/ Very exciting! Seeing lots of links to dbtune and dbpedia. Well done! -Kurt
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