> I have been playing around with the Characteristic Ontology and was able
> to combine it with the Similarity Ontology and Music Ontology as well.
> In the Music Ontology they have an example query for getting the name's
> of the artists similar to the given artist to at least 80%.

>   Finding the names of the Artists similar to another Artist to at least 80%

>   1        PREFIX mo:      <http://purl.org/ontology/mo/>
>   2        PREFIX sim:     <http://purl.org/ontology/sim/>
>   3        PREFIX foaf:    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
>   4        SELECT DISTINCT ?level ?similar_artist_name
>   5        WHERE
>   6        {
>   7            ?artist  a mo:MusicArtist;
>   8                     foaf:name "Shakira".

>   9            ?artist  sim:link ?blank.
>   10           ?blank   sim:relation mo:similar_to;
>   11                    sim:level ?level;
>   12                    sim:to ?similar_artist.

>   14            ?similar_artist a mo:MusicArtist;
>   16                            foaf:name ?similar_artist_name.
>   17       }

> First of all, I'm a little confused about the working of this query.
> Should it return the artists that are at least 80% similar to the given
> artist?
> If this is what it should return, I'm confused about how it does so,
> since when I run the query on my rdf I just get back all the artists, no
> matter their level of similarity.
> How can I filter the result so it will only return those artists that
> have a similarity level of at least 0.8?

> Thanks in advance,
> Naomi

> On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:39:41 PM UTC-7, nomush wrote:

>     Hello Everyone!

>     I have just started learning about ontologies and am a bit confused
>     as to how to go about implementing actual applications that utilize
>     the music ontology and the Similarity ontology in order to find
>     musical similarities between users. I'm collecting user's music
>     likes (in the form of the artist's/band's name). Here is where it
>     gets a bit fuzzy.
>     Is the next next to create an RDF file for each artist/band stating
>     their genre and similar artists/bands and then through the Jena API
>     (I would like to code in Java if possible) query the knowledge base,
>     meaning that if I enter a user's music preferences I would be able
>     to output users with similar musical preferences.

>     Thanks in advance,
>     Naomi