Hello,
It is a dilemma indeed. I think we need to make a effort to get RDF/
RDFa on to musicbrainz.org and then we can use the 'proper' URIs. I
have been holding back from doing this because the codebase has been
changing so much - but there is a big new release coming soon....
nick.
On 6 Sep 2009, at 13:21, Kurt J wrote:
Hello All,
It seems there are (too) many options for creating music-related URIs.
They are mostly all based on Musicbrainz.org IDs (which is quite
appropriate), but it can be difficult to know which to choose. I can
identify at least four different sources of artist URIs based on
musicbrainz ids:
1. dbtune.org/musicbrainz
pros: there are uris for records, tracks, and artists (and
more), they dereference nicely; a nice comprehensive mapping
cons: it's updated only periodically from the musicbrainz dumps
2. bbc.co.uk/music
pros: well maintained by hard-working professionals; deref
nicely w/ fancy content neg
cons: afaik, no URIs for releases, tracks - just artists; it is
arguably biased by bbc interests (not saying i believe this myself)
3. zitgist.com
pros: samesAs links from DBpedia; includes URIs for records /
tracks / etc
cons: not sure how often they are updated from musicbrainz;
not sure why, but seem to have fallen out of fashion somewhat (any
reasons?)
4. musicbrainz.org
pros: this is 'the source' of all these ids and suc
cons: afaik, these do not actually deref to any RDF;
also note, URIs like this
http://musicbrainz.org/music/artist/20072862-5132-478e-b9e2-8a3aa308cd89
appear in http://lod.openlinksw.com/
i think this might be a mistake in xslt or something - not only do
these not actually deref to rdf, they return 404 from Musicbrainz -
perhaps there is some thing i am not understandin tho. i believe the
'/music/' should be removed - then musibrainz.org handles the URI and
returns an html page.
As I mentioned before, we are giving a tutorial on music information
retrieval and the semantic web, see:
http://ismir2009.dbtune.org/
Put simply, what URIs do I tell people to use?
Thanks.
-Kurt J
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