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 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
