Christopher Stewart wrote:
Howdy,
I think they could become a significant nexus for artist-related data,
and an important agent for the democratization of the semantic
technologies.
A huge amount of artists rely on social networks and music sites for
promotion and distribution.
Entering contents on such sites is a painfully tedious process (i.e.
large number of services / no standards / so very few importers), and
given the trends it looks as if it's only gonna get worse, until
something is done. In other words, having the possibility to "post
once, publish everywhere" is godsend.
Thus the publishing service that ArtistData is offering has the
potential to interest a huge amount of artists, and become a vital
part of their organizations.
For now ArtistData only handle shows, but they have plans to add
"blogs, news, and more in the upcoming months" (hopefully, "more"
means music metadata, photos, videos, contacts, ...).
So, assuming that they're successful, then they will become a kind of
funnel in which artists pour their contents, and via which music and
social sites get fed. And once the funnel is made then it's easy to
make it available to the general public also. Thus a lot of data will
go through their hands before reaching their partner sites, and
they'll have the weight of a huge amount of users behind them, so
they'll be in a very good position to propose standards (they most
probably will have to at some point or another if they want to keep
their hair), and generally influence how music and social sites handle
and represent data on their side.
So, to restate my original message in less inspired language, it would
surely be interesting to have ArtistData adopt RDF and the semantic
technologies.
Thus being said, ladies and gents, have a nice day (and might I add a
belated happy birthday to K).
Take care,
Chris
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Yves Raimond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello!
> Would be interesting to have the following MusicOntologized and
> LinkingOpenData-ed :
>
> https://www.artistdata.com/us/howitworks
Looks nice - a bit like ping.fm <http://ping.fm>, but for
music-related data :-)
However, I am not sure what there is to RDFize and interlink there, as
the data is posted to multiple sites (e.g. eventful, last.fm
<http://last.fm> etc.) but
not available directly or stored on artistdata.com
<http://artistdata.com>?
I am guessing writing a more complete linked data wrapper to the
last.fm <http://last.fm> api than the one at
http://dbtune.org/last-fm/ could allow us
to interlink data posted through artistdata.com
<http://artistdata.com>?
Cheers!
y
>
> Have fun !
> Chris
>
> __________________________________________________
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>
> Rock : http://myspace.com/poligraf
> Micro-Funding : http://poligraf.wordpress.com/
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Chris,
Do they have an API ?
Do they have Feeds that expose public versions of their aggregated data?
The above are the critical pieces re. RDF-ization.
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