Category Archives: Music

Flickr & MusicBrainz Machine tags: If you’ve got it, flaunt it

From Sander van Zoest at Uncensored Interview, a convention for representing MusicBrainz identifiers using Flickr’s Machine Tag mechanism.
Example:
A photo of Matthew Dear, tagged as follows:

musicbrainz:mbid=3d191c12-be64-4f90-94d8-ac324b2b3544
wikipedia:en=Matthew_Dear

It also includes a Wikipedia identifier which could be used to link to DBpedia (though this might duplicate information also available within MusicBrainz’s advanced relationships system). There must be many 1000s [...]

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Restarter martyr: sounds of Firefox 3b5

I use Firefox with a lot of tabs. I guess I’m a multi-tasker. Or I have surplus attention. Or they fixed enough memory leaks in Firefox 3  so that opening a new tab is almost cost-free. Until you restart your browser (is there a bug open for this? I couldn’t find one).
I’ve just made a [...]

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MusicBrainz SQL-to-RDF D2RQ mapping from Yves Raimond

More great music-related stuff from Yves Raimond. He’s just announced (on the Music ontology list) a D2RQ mapping of the MusicBrainz SQL into RDF and SPARQL. There’s a running instance of it on his site. The N3 mapping files are on the  motools sourceforge site.
Yves writes…
Added to the things that are available within the Zitgist [...]

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