Training:NeOn 2008 Tutorial on Computational Ontologies/Music Industry Ontology

To develop an OWL ontology starting from a use case.

Context

The Warner Bros recording label has decided to manage its own productions by means of an ontology-driven application. They provide the designers with documents describing scenarios that have to be stored in the knowledge base. From this documents one story is extracted and assigned to ontology designers.

Story for exercise 1: album production

The “Red Hot Chili Peppers” are: Anthony Kiedis (vocals), Flea (bass, trumpet, keyboards, and vocals), John Frusciante (guitar), and Chad Smith (drums). During 2005, the band recorded the album “Stadium Arcadium”. The album contains 28 tracks and has been released in May 2006. It includes the track of the song “Hump de Bump”, which was composed in January 2004. The critic Crian Hiatt defines the album as "the most ambitious work of its twenty-three-year career".