With or Without UIDs

Slide 1: With or Without UIDs Linking Data In The Real World Alf Eaton - hublog.hubmed.org

Slide 2: Now Playing Title Album Artist

Slide 3: Links Biography Tracks Metadata Discography Tags Band members Similar Artists Videos

Slide 4: YouTube

Slide 5: YouTube Text search

Slide 6: last.fm

Slide 7: last.fm Artist: Mono 8 artists sharing the name Mono

Slide 8: Mono’s Biography Ironically, there are eight artists sharing the name Mono; Japanese: Mono are a post-rock group from Tokyo, Japan. The songs, all of which are instrumental, are usually focused on layered guitar melodies. Strings and pianos are also prominently featured in some songs. Mono are known for their powerful live shows and their complex guitar work. Their first EP, titled “Hey, you” appeared in September, 2000. So far, they have released four full albums: “Under The Pipal Tree”, “One Step More And You Die”, “Walking cloud and deep red sky, Flag fluttered and the sun shined” and “You Are There”. They also have several other records, including a remix album, a collaborative split record with Pelican, an album collaborating with World’s end girlfriend and another EP, titled “Memorie dal Futuro”. British: Mono were a British pop duo which became a one-hit wonder in the late 1990s with their song “Life in Mono”. The group is considered electronica or more specifically “trip hop” and Mono’s music shares some similarities with other such acts including Sneaker Pimps and Portishead. Dutch: Mono are a Dutch indie rock/post-rock band from Rotterdam. They are on Zabel Records, together with We vs. Death. http://www.monotheband.com Austrian: Mono is a female Austrian reggae / dancehall artist who now mostly collaborates with the German artist Nikitaman forming the band Mono & Nikitaman. Both have recently moved from Düsseldorf, Germany to Linz, Austria. Swedish: Mono is one of the names used by Jezper Söderlund, also known as Airbase, Ozone, PARC and RAH. Korean: Mono ( ) was a Korean ballad trio active in the first half of the 90s. They released two albums in 1993 & 1994, and resurfaced for a new album in 2000.

Slide 9: Mono http://www.last.fm/music/Mono http://flickr.com/photos/aphrodaia/1755426281/

Slide 10: MusicBrainz

Slide 11: MusicBrainz Artist: Mono Artist Title Album

Slide 12: MusicBrainz Artist = Mono Album = Formica Blues

Slide 13: MusicBrainz http://musicbrainz.org/artist/01fa5c3b-00d2-45c4- b7c1-8753cf8b7ee6.html http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mono http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(UK_band)

Slide 14: UIDs Artist MBID: 01fa5c3b-00d2-45c4-b7c1-8753cf8b7ee6 Album ASIN: B000006MX5

Slide 15: http://en.wikipedia.org/artist name (US) Creator http://last.fm/artist Artist dates name (UK) http://musicbrainz.org/MBID creator http://musicbrainz.org/MBID Album Work album artist Track features title duration Manifestation http://example.com/track1.mp3 Track file size

Slide 16: dates discography title name (US) name (UK) http://musicbrainz.org/MBID album Artist http://last.fm/ID Track creator http://example.com/track1.mp3 duration http://last.fm/ID http://en.wikipedia.org/artist features http://musicbrainz.org/MBID

Slide 18: Freebase: MQL query : { album : [{ name : "Mirrored", track : [] * : null, }], type : "/music/artist" name : "Battles", }

Slide 19: Freebase: response "acquire_webpage" : [], "acquire_webpage" : [], "artist" : ["Battles"], "artist" : ["Battles"], "attribution" : "/user/dehfne", "attribution" : "/user/mwcl_wikipedia_en", "compositions" : [], "compositions" : [], "contributor" : [], "contributor" : [], "creator" : "/user/dehfne", "creator" : "/user/mwcl_wikipedia_en", "engineer" : [], "engineer" : [], "follows" : null, "follows" : null, "genre" : [], "genre" : [ "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f800000000544e3e8", "Math rock", "id" : "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e3e8", "Experimental rock" "key" : [], ], "label" : ["Warp Records"], "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f80000000055e44c3", "length" : null, "id" : "/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000055e44c3", "name" : "Mirrored", "key" : [ "preceeds" : null, "9937068", "producer" : [], "Mirrored_$0028album$0029", "release_date" : "2007", "Mirrored" "release_type" : "Album", ], "releases" : [], "label" : ["Warp Records"], "timestamp" : "2007-07-05T23:51:14.0000Z", "length" : null, "track" : [ "name" : "Mirrored", "Race: Out", "preceeds" : null, "Tij", "producer" : [], "Snare Hangar", "release_date" : null, "Prismism", "release_type" : null, "Bad Trails", "releases" : [], "Rainbow", "timestamp" : "2007-07-28T00:55:40.0077Z", "Leyendecker", "track" : [] "Tonto", "Ddiamondd", "Atlas", "Race: In" ]

Slide 20: SPARQL PREFIX mo: <http://purl.org/ontology/mo> PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> DESCRIBE ?album WHERE { ?album a mo:Record; mo:releaseType “album”; dc:title “Mirrored”; dc:creator ?artist. ?artist a mo:MusicArtist; foaf:name “Battles”. }

Slide 22: John Lennon Statements can be false Ringo Starr

Slide 23: Queries with confidence

Slide 24: last.fm fingerprinting client 'album' => 'Mirrored', 'artist' => 'Battles', 'duration' => '427', 'filename' => 'Atlas.mp3', 'genre' => 'Post Rock', 'samplerate' => '44100', 'sha256' => 'efdd3e5ea6ed7...', 'track' => 'Atlas', 'tracknum' => '2', 'year' => '2007', 'fpdata' => '',

Slide 25: last.fm response 3404 <metadata fid="3404" lastmodified="1205776219"> <track confidence="0.990326"> <artist>Battles</artist> <title>Atlas</title> <url>http://www.last.fm/music/Battles/_/Atlas</url> </track> <track confidence="0.002182"> <artist>Various Artists</artist> <title>Battles - Atlas</title> <url>http://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/_/Battles+-+Atlas</url> </track>

Slide 26: Lucene “OR” name: “Bono”^1.0 [query boost] OR real-name: “Paul Hewson”^0.4 OR band: “U2”^0.5 Returns a list of results, with a score for each one

Slide 27: Corese SELECT MORE ? album ?artist WHERE { SCORE ?s1 { ?album mo:releaseType “album” } . SCORE ?s2 { ?album dc:title “Mirrored” } . ?album dc:creator ?artist. SCORE ?s3 { ?artist foaf:name “Battles” } . ?album dc:creator ?artist . FILTER ( score() > 0.75 ) FILTER ( ?s1 > 0.3 ) }

Slide 28: Other examples

Slide 30: Email address Search Account URLs*, full names, usernames Google Social Graph API

Slide 31: Scintilla Conversations around scientific papers

Slide 32: URL PMID DOI Connotea PubMed CrossRef Metadata, more identifiers Scopus Postgenomic Formal citations (papers) Informal citations (blogs) OSCAR, Whatizit Cross-link the literature Entities Follow conversations

Slide 37: Now Playing

Slide 39:  BoNO MUST DIE!   (changed their name to   oRPHANS [FKABMD] after being sued)   (then split up and became O.CHILDREN) 

Slide 40: Amarok controls click to play album

Slide 41: Amarok DCOP XMPP MySQL HTTP greasemonkey HTTP xmpp4moz XMPP Firefox XMPP PEP BBC *XMPP in Amarok and Firefox = Google Talk accounts

Slide 43: bbc radio xmpp

Slide 44: Context Similar artists Discography Biography Album cover Album tracks YouTube videos ...

Slide 45: Links Official sites Sources of information OpenURL XSPF

Slide 46: You!