http://hoenir.himinbi.org/2008/02/06/why-i-like-musicbrainz/ The Contents of Will's Head Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:07:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://hoenir.himinbi.org/2008/02/06/why-i-like-musicbrainz/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Yves Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:58:18 +0000 http://hoenir.himinbi.org/2008/02/06/why-i-like-musicbrainz/#comment-6 Really nice post :-) If you like giving URIs for things in the music-domain (not only albums/tracks/etc. but also performances, arrangements, musical works, musical instruments etc.) you might want to check RDF and the <a href="http://musicontology.com" rel="nofollow">Music Ontology</a> and also the published dataset using it (for example, <a href="http://dbtune.org/" rel="nofollow">DBtune</a> - here is a <a href="http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/" rel="nofollow">small depiction</a> putting that back into context). The whole thing is that I might want to publish some annotations of a Musicbrainz track, which do not necessarily fit within the Musicbrainz schema (such as <a href="http://wiki.musicontology.com/index.php/Structural_annotations_of_%22Can%27t_buy_me_love%22_by_the_Beatles"a structural segmentation</a>, for example)- I can do it by publishing some RDF on my web server, giving URIs for the different entities I am describing, and linking them to related ones ("my URI for this track is the same as the corresponding Musicbrainz URI", for example). This leads towards a distributed music-related "database". Really nice post
If you like giving URIs for things in the music-domain (not only albums/tracks/etc. but also performances, arrangements, musical works, musical instruments etc.) you might want to check RDF and the Music Ontology and also the published dataset using it (for example, DBtune – here is a small depiction putting that back into context).
The whole thing is that I might want to publish some annotations of a Musicbrainz track, which do not necessarily fit within the Musicbrainz schema (such as <a href=”http://wiki.musicontology.com/index.php/Structural_annotations_of_%22Can%27t_buy_me_love%22_by_the_Beatles”a structural segmentation, for example)- I can do it by publishing some RDF on my web server, giving URIs for the different entities I am describing, and linking them to related ones (“my URI for this track is the same as the corresponding Musicbrainz URI”, for example).
This leads towards a distributed music-related “database”.

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