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Hi Naomi,

to model a user's music preferences you could utilise the Cognitive 
Characteristics Ontology (CCO) [1] as well. There is also an example 
that deals with music preferences in the documentation of CCO, see [2].
If have all your required knowledge in your knowledge base you could 
write SPARQL queries to get what you need (similarities between users). 
You'll maybe even do not need the Similarity Ontology at the beginning. 
This might be a further enhanced of your similarity algorithm. You could 
utilise it for modelling similarities between music artists, or songs, ...

Cheers,


Bo


[1] purl.org/ontology/cco/core#
[2] 
http://purl.org/ontology/cco/cognitivecharacteristics.html#sec-simple-music-preferences-example

On 09/13/2012 07:39 AM, 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