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.)