Ontology:Music Ontology
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Name: | Music Ontology |
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Description: | The Music Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing music (i.e. artists, albums, tracks, but also performances, arrangements, etc.) on the Semantic Web. |
Purpose: | To publish and interlink a wide range of structured music-related data on the Web. The music ontology is used as an interlingua to facilitate interoperability among different music data sources. |
Organization(s): | BBC, Structured Dynamics, Centre for Digital Music - Queen Mary - University of London, Faculty of Computer Science - University of Technology Dresden - Germany |
Author(s): | Yeves Raimond, Frederick Giasson |
Justification | Had many revisions, is widely used (see the linked data cloud). An evaluation methodology was developed and used it to evaluate the music ontology. Various applications were built; dealing with deal with personal collection management, enhanced access to large audio streams available on the Web and music recommendation. |
Recommended by: | François Scharffe |
Submitted by: | FrancoisScharffe |
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OntologyURI: |
http://motools.sourceforge.net/doc/musicontology.rdfs (3930) |
Licensing: | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Web references: | http://musicontology.com/, http://wiki.musicontology.com/index.php/Main_Page |
Other references: | http://moustaki.org/phd/ |