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MusicNet: Aligning Musicology’s Metadata

MusicNet: Aligning Musicology’s Metadata
MusicNet: Aligning Musicology’s Metadata
As more resources are published as Linked Data, data from multiple heterogeneous sources should be more rapidly discoverable and automatically integrable, enabling it to be reused in contexts beyond those originally envisaged. But Linked Data is not of itself a complete solution. One of the key challenges of Linked Data is that its strength is also a weakness: anyone can publish anything. So in music, for instance, 17 sources may independently publish data about ‘Schubert’, but there is no de facto way to know that any of these Schuberts are the same, because the sources are not aligned. Alignment is a prerequisite for usable Linked Data, without which resources are effectively be stranded rather than integrated. To begin to address this, the MusicNet project has minted URIs for composers and exposed as RDF basic biographical data to aid disambiguation, and, crucially, alignment information for several leading providers of musicological data.
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Bretherton, David, Smith, Daniel Alexander, Lambert, Joe and schraefel, mc (2011) MusicNet: Aligning Musicology’s Metadata. Music Linked Data Workshop, London, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

As more resources are published as Linked Data, data from multiple heterogeneous sources should be more rapidly discoverable and automatically integrable, enabling it to be reused in contexts beyond those originally envisaged. But Linked Data is not of itself a complete solution. One of the key challenges of Linked Data is that its strength is also a weakness: anyone can publish anything. So in music, for instance, 17 sources may independently publish data about ‘Schubert’, but there is no de facto way to know that any of these Schuberts are the same, because the sources are not aligned. Alignment is a prerequisite for usable Linked Data, without which resources are effectively be stranded rather than integrated. To begin to address this, the MusicNet project has minted URIs for composers and exposed as RDF basic biographical data to aid disambiguation, and, crucially, alignment information for several leading providers of musicological data.

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Published date: 12 May 2011
Additional Information: Event Dates: 12 May 2011
Venue - Dates: Music Linked Data Workshop, London, United Kingdom, 2011-05-12
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 272408
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/272408
PURE UUID: bb9b5e52-44c5-41e5-904e-368c91de1ec3
ORCID for mc schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 06 Jun 2011 10:57
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:16

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Author: David Bretherton
Author: Daniel Alexander Smith
Author: Joe Lambert
Author: mc schraefel ORCID iD

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