On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> 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 -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
