Fwd: [Fwd: Re: [Playlist] RDF music metadata spec]

[Dan Brickley]

What would be nice here is the following:

(rather than getting over-excited or upset about this turn of events...)

*GRDDL transform to turn MB XML into some RDF representation based on
this list's draft ontology.
*SquirrelRDF or other SQL-to-RDF technology to turn MB SQL store into
SPARQL endpoint

Then we write some SPARQL queries that do something useful and
interesting with either form of the MB data. I'd hope they would look
nicer and be more useful than the corresponding XQuery.

cheers,

Dan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Brickley <dan...@danbri.org>
Date: 05-Jan-2007 19:34
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Playlist] RDF music metadata spec]
To: Dan Brickley <danbr...@gmail.com>

On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Lucas Gonze wrote:

> http://pingthesemanticweb.com/ontology/mo/
>
> We have been in need of a high-quality metadata format to incorporate
> for quite a long time now. Does anybody have feelings on whether this
> effort should be a recommendation?

Ironically enough, MusicBrainz is no longer recommending that people
use this format. RDF has proven to be a significant hinderance to
adoption because of its bizarre syntax and horrible specs. Instead,
we're following the lead of the big guys and going with plain simple
XML:

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainzXMLMetaData

This format was created by Matthias and myself and should work well
with XSPF. As for accessing MB metadata via REST, this has become the
official way moving forward. RDF has now been deprecated at MB.

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[Danny Ayers]

On 06/01/07, Dan Brickley <danbr...@gmail.com> wrote:

*GRDDL transform to turn MB XML into some RDF representation based on
this list's draft ontology.

Writing conversion XSLT gets a bit tiresome, so I just had a crack at trying to make some XSLT that would write it (or at least the more tedious bits) based on the RelaxNG schema. I got as far as one triple...

http://dannyayers.com/2007/01/06/auto-generating-grddl

Cheers,
Danny.

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