Comments on: MusicBrainz SQL-to-RDF D2RQ mapping from Yves Raimond http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/296 the web, the world, us, you and them Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yves Raimond http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/296/comment-page-1#comment-13968 Yves Raimond Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:13:35 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/296#comment-13968 Note that the mapping is still in *really* early stages - there are lots of things missing, or just wrong (and I also have to un-expose some data, especially about the Musicbrainz moderation process) But still, that's a start, I guess :-) @cinneidesean: There is some prior work on that, although quite early. The symbolic notation ontology available at: http://motools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/motools/so/ allows to express score-like information (this is still pretty... raw). The chord ontology available at: http://purl.org/ontology/chord/ allows to express chords, and decompose musical items into chords. There is also an ontology for tonality over there: http://purl.org/ontology/tonality/ Just some hints, nothing (apart from the chord ontology, to some extent - http://www.chordtranscriptions.net/) has much data to back it up - let's see if it'll prove useful :-) Note that the mapping is still in *really* early stages – there are lots of things missing, or just wrong (and I also have to un-expose some data, especially about the Musicbrainz moderation process) But still, that’s a start, I guess :-)

@cinneidesean: There is some prior work on that, although quite early. The symbolic notation ontology available at:
http://motools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/motools/so/
allows to express score-like information (this is still pretty… raw).
The chord ontology available at:
http://purl.org/ontology/chord/
allows to express chords, and decompose musical items into chords.
There is also an ontology for tonality over there:
http://purl.org/ontology/tonality/

Just some hints, nothing (apart from the chord ontology, to some extent – http://www.chordtranscriptions.net/) has much data to back it up – let’s see if it’ll prove useful :-)

]]> By: cinneidesean http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/296/comment-page-1#comment-13961 cinneidesean Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:44:15 +0000 http://danbri.org/words/2008/04/07/296#comment-13961 one of my fondest memories of the computer club at secondary school was typing a "music score" program on the BBC Micro (young people today are spoiled with giga-hertz and giga-bytes) its not clear to me from your post but can the tune/scoring be put in RDF. is their prior work on this. it would be fitting as arguably the history of representation began with plain chant. the rest is just bells/whistles ;-) now that i think of it harmony would make a *great* N3-ruleset [...] sw will never be able to phone up the radio station to get a request played, though. ... ;-) one of my fondest memories of the computer club at secondary school was typing a “music score” program on the BBC Micro (young people today are spoiled with giga-hertz and giga-bytes) its not clear to me from your post but can the tune/scoring be put in RDF. is their prior work on this. it would be fitting as arguably the history of representation began with plain chant. the rest is just bells/whistles ;-)
now that i think of it harmony would make a *great* N3-ruleset [...] sw will never be able to phone up the radio station to get a request played, though. … ;-)

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