On 09/24/2015 10:59 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks!  Is there any more information on the issue with MusicBrainz?
>>
>> 17:26:27 <DanielK_WMDE> sjoerddebruin: yes, we went for MusicBrainz first,
>> but it turned out to be impractical. you basically have to run their
>> software in order to use their dumps
>>
>>
>> MusicBrainz was a major source of information for Freebase, so they appear
>> to have been able to figure out how to parse the dumps (and they already
>> have the MusicBrainz & Wikipedia IDs correlated).
>>
>> Is there more detail, perhaps in a bug somewhere?
> 
> The issue is that they do offer dumps but you need to set up your own
> musicbrainz server to really use it. This was too time-intensive and
> complicated for the students to make progress on during their project.
> Because of this they decided to instead opt for another dataset
> instead to get started. In the future Musicbrainz should still get
> done. If anyone wants to work on adding more datasets to the tool
> please let me know.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Lydia
> 

This is to add MusicBrainz to the primary source tool, not anything else?

peter

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