DBTune.org

Myspace RDF Service

Warning: This service is currently broken, MySpace changed a number of things that break the scrapping.

Update: The FOAF view of MySpace data is back online.

1. Introduction

This service provides a live RDF representation of Myspace users. If the user is also an artist, then the corresponding tracks in the streaming audio cache are included in the RDF. Note that only the top friends in the target Myspace page are included in the RDF.

This representations is designed using the Music Ontology and FOAF. The scraping is handled by the MyPySpace.

This effort is part of the Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web community project, hosted by the Semantic Web Education and Outreach interest group.

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2. Using this service

Starting from a Myspace user name:

http://myspace.com/<user name>
Just get the following URI:
http://dbtune.org/myspace/<user name>
Alternatively, you can use the Myspace user id directly:
http://dbtune.org/myspace/uid/<userID>

For example, the following URI identifies a band in MySpace:

http://dbtune.org/myspace/lesversaillaisesamoustache

If you have a MySpace account, you can add the corresponding information to your FOAF profile by adding the following statement in it:

<my URI> owl:sameAs <http://dbtune.org/myspace/<user name>

3. Code

As usual, all the code running this service is open source and based on Python and SWI-Prolog