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The Music Ontology
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Yves Raimond, Samer Abdallah, Mark Sandler, Frederick Giasson
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Overview
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Chris@0: - Towards a web of data
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Chris@0: - The Music Ontology
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Introduction
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Music-related datasets on the web
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Linked data
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Resources on the Web can be far more than web pages!
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Linked data
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Linked data
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Vocabularies / Ontologies
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Such data is also linked to a particular model of its domain: an ontology
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Chris@0: - <http://dbtune.org/jamendo/artist/5> rdf:type foaf:Person specifies that this resource
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Chris@0: - ... And therefore part of the data web
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The Data Web
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Turning the Web into a huge democratic, decentralized, database that can be directly consumed by applications
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A framework for dealing with music-related information on the Semantic Web
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The Timeline Ontology
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Expressing temporal information, eg.
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The Timeline Ontology
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The Event Ontology
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Event — An arbitrary classification of a space/time region
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The Event Ontology
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FRBR and FOAF
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Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records:
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Friend of a Friend:
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Music Production concepts
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Chris@0: - On top of FRBR:
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The Music production workflow
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Current and planned extensions
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Linking Open Data
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Chris@0: - A subset of this project is the dbtune project, aiming at interlinking lots of music-related datasets using Musicbrainz as a data hub
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Current Map
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Conclusion and Future work
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Conclusion
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Chris@0: - RDF and HTTP provides a way to create a Web of data
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Further Work
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Chris@0: - Well, more interlinking!
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Chris@0: Place my collection on a timeline and make me listen something composed in the UK in 1560, followed by a rock song recorded in the 60s
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Epilogue
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And well, what would be a Semantic Web talk without a google map?
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Questions ?
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