The Music Ontology: "
A new and exciting project in the Semantic Web area: The Music
Ontology, by Frederic
Giasson (PTSW, TalkDigger).
Its goal is to provide a vocabulary to describe Artists, Releases, Songs and
so on in RDF. It is mainly based on the MusicBrainz Metadata Vocabulary, but with new improvements as defining
relationships between artists and links to external services. And, most
important thing, a lot of triples from the current MusicBrainz database should be
available in a few weeks. A mailing-list has been launched for discussions and improvements.
I was waiting for this kind of vocabulary (and data) for some time (as I
never took time to look as MBz database export) especially to easilly find all covers of
a given song. From another point of view, I'll be happy to use it to represent
- and query - various releases of a given record (using the
mo:other_release_of property), especially for vynil records with
reissues (so what about a mo:reissue property ?) with
different colors, inner sleeve ...
Well, finally what about converting the FLEX book in RDF to query
this huge punk and hardcore database (and use its URIs for want-lists) ?
"
(Via Alexandre Passant - Terraces.)