Ivan's Blog

Frederick Giasson just posted a blog on the renewed Music Ontology Specification, trying to make it as close to the MusicBrainz project as possible. It will also be possible to query the MusicBrainz database via SPARQL endpoints. Really great stuff!

While we are at it, however… Personally, I listen mostly to classical music, and I’m always frustrated that most of these ontologies, databases, etc, are not really prepared for that at all. I own an iPod, it is all right as a device, but the terminology it uses is really not prepared for that (think of the terms “song” or “album”, for example). But yesterday, on #swig, Frederick also gave me the reference for a classical music ontology: the “Music Vocabulary” defined by Kanzaki Masahide. For that minority of us caring about classical music, this is a good resource to have…