Re: JSON-LD format for music

On Jun 25, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Kuno Woudt wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 25/06/12 03:34, Manu Sporny wrote:
>> 
>> You may also want to check out MusicBrainz, who releases all of their
>> data in Linked Data form (for free), using the Music Ontology among
>> other ontologies/vocabularies, - specifically, RDFa page markup. Check out:
>> 
>> http://musicbrainz.org/release/591a8885-6b0c-437c-8546-1a4398f483c2
> 
> Currently MusicBrainz only has the database exposed as linked data 
> through RDFa.  We have regular XML output on our webservice (for example 
> [1]), but this is just plain XML, not RDF.
> 
> I am one of the developers on MusicBrainz.  I wasn't involved with the 
> RDFa implementation, but I have just been tasked to implement json 
> support in the webservice.
> 
> We already use a json representation internally, which I will have to 
> adapt for public consumption.  I intend to create and maintain a 
> context.json as part of this work, so that our webservice responses are 
> easily consumed as json-ld.

Great news!

> It seemed relevant to mention this in this thread.  I expect I'll have 
> more json-ld questions when I start working on this :)

We're here to help. You can also find us at #json-ld on freenode.

Gregg

> -- kuno / warp.
> 
> [1] 
> http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/591a8885-6b0c-437c-8546-1a4398f483c2?inc=artist-credits%2Blabels%2Bdiscids%2Brecordings
> 
> 

Received on Monday, 25 June 2012 22:18:13 UTC