Still hot from the oven, heres a script that creates MusicOntology-RDF-
Artists'-instances, based on the data coming from last.fm [1] and/or
pandora [2].

Heres how it roughly works:
* last.fm: Gets the top 5 artists of the user, plus similar artists.
* pandora: Gets 5 artist-based radio stations of the user (from the
user's RSS), and gets similar artists from last.fm.
(in both cases, the script is a bit slow, as is querying all these
APIs, parsing RSS, etc.)

Moreover, it connects to the MusicBrainz [3] repository (plus Amazon
WS to get the images) to gather some useful information.

Please, handle with care. It has not yet been fully tested...at all!

Regards,

Oscar.
[1] http://foafing-the-music.iua.upf.edu/RDFize/pandora?username=tconrad
[2] http://foafing-the-music.iua.upf.edu/RDFize/lastfm?username=RJ
[3] http://musicbrainz.org

It makes a quite interesting music recommendation system.

By the way, for everybody information:

1- A new revision of the ontology should be released next week (mo:Show, the
shortcuts discussion, revision of some definitions, and some more schemas to
explain how things interact together).

2- The MBZ->MO mapping should be released (Virtuoso RDF VIew at least) on
Monday, and the RDF dump should come next week too.

Salutations,

Fred

I'm doing a similarish mashup with vcs[1]
Hacking together an app that listens for track playing notifications
from vcs and uses the mb track api to bring back artist, track and
release ids

Unfortunately vcs only has artist, composer, track title, label and cat
# ~ enough to do music reporting but no release title!?!
We've got a local install of brainz ~ one option we're considering is
rewriting the lucene indexing to index cat #s... Or just changing vcs.
Anybody got any thoughts on the coverage of cat #s in brainz? I know the
model has changed pretty recently

Anyway I've wrapped the data in ruby on rails and it uses the brainz api
to bring back brainz data including the wikipedia links, then scrapes
wikipedia to bring bits of that in. Have started to think about pulling
in users last.fm profiles to recommend bbc programmes but not got very
far yet... Maybe this weekend

Unfortunately it's an internal only demo ~ the aim is to generate
personalised podcasts of bbc programmes based on user taste so we can't
make it external any time soon... But if any of you are in the vicinity
of broadcasting house....

Slightly interesting(?) stats on automated matching for networks:
BBC radio 1 ~ 66% (pop stuff)
BBC 6Music ~ 75% (music for 30 somethings to wash their cars to)
Radio 2 ~ 89% (dad rock)
1xtra - 32% (urban)
A lot of the errors are down to bad data in vcs but I'm not sure if the
1xtra stats are down to problems matching collaborations (it seems to
struggle) or lack of genre coverage in brainz

Slightly [more] off topic but have any of you any thoughts on
microformats around music. Just trying to come up with a good way of
marking up programme tracklists and the microformats mailing list scares
me

[1] a hard disc playout system (like a giant ipod) used on daytime bbc
radios 1,2,6music and 1xtra

On 3/8/07, Michael Smethurst <Michael.Smethu...@bbc.co.uk> wrote:

++
florent

Just a small technical point though: should we keep the MBZ URIs to
refer to an artist object (or any MBZ stuff)? In fact, my point is
that, if we dereference it, it doesn't give much useful information.

Fred, you may have come across this problem while mapping MBZ. How did
you solve that?

I was thinking about an inverse functional property mo:mbz, or
something like that.

Cheers!

Yves

...nice work you and Fred are doing here!

On Mar 8, 11:19 pm, "Yves Raimond" <yves.raim...@gmail.com> wrote:

mo:MusicGroup rdf:about="http://mm.Music.org/artist/65f4f0c5-ef9e-490c-
aee3-909e7ae6b2ab"

So, I thought  that this URI looked very similar to the MusicBrainz
(MB) ones ;-)
And, in my case, I'm looking to a simple way of integrating all this
artist (and track) info from different sources, for doing music
recommendation. Thus, I thought MB (or maybe last.fm) could be the
most useful ones...

Anyway, what do you think it would be the best option, then?
Referencing to the Artist wikipedia URI (if available), or last.fm
one?

There is no magic trick to make it happens. The only way is that
somebody host the data with some uri that are deferencable. I will be
one of these person in a somewhat near future. In fact, I will use
Zitgist as URI for musical things. that way, people will be able to
dereference musical resources from Zitgist, and then follow links to
musicbrainz, wikipedia, etc. For now, continue to use MBZ for URI
description, but next week, you will get the URI schemas I will use
to refers to them, and then you will be free to choose what to use.

Take care,

Fred

Take care,

Fred

On Mar 9, 2:29 pm, Frederick Giasson <f...@fgiasson.com> wrote:

Cheers, Oscar

Take care,

Fred

Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how this would be best marked up
(yes with links... We know that)
I'd like to embed brainz ids (where available) in the html for easy
parsing

Anyway if anyone has any thoughts on how we could make this useful to
you...