danbri’s foaf stories

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 quick movie from the unedited sound of Firefox 3 restarting this morning: Krafty Nacirema (multitasking mix).

Raw materials include: New Order’s ‘Krafty‘ and ‘Confusion‘; John S. Hall’s ‘America Kicks Ass‘ rant, and who knows what else. I liked how it all sounded, so here it is.

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 mapping:

•  SPARQL end point
•  Support for tags
• Supports a couple of advanced relationships (still working my way  through it, though)
• Instrument taxonomy directly generated from the db, and related to performance events
• Support for orchestras

This is pretty cool, since the original MusicBrainz RDF is rather dated (if it’s even still available). The new representations are much richer and probably also easier to maintain.

Nearby in the Web: discussion of RDF views into MySpace; and the RDB2RDF Incubator Group at W3C discussions are getting started (this group is looking at technology such as D2RQ which map non-RDF databases into our strange parallel world…)