Dr. Alexandre Passant gave a lightning talk at SemTech2011 in San Francisco on June 6th 2011 about Seevl, a system he created that uses semantic web technologies to provide unique ways of exploring music and connections between artists. Seevl interlinks music data using RDF, ontologies like FOAF and SKOS, stores the data in a graph database, and generates recommendations and search results through SPARQL queries. The system aims to help users find new artists, understand relationships between bands, and explore their cultural and musical universe by going beyond just sounds.

1. Dr. Alexandre Passant, CEO
@terraces - apassant.net
SemTech2011 - Lightning talk session
San Francisco, June 6th 2011
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3. We provide unique ways to find artist
and bands, to explore their cultural and
musical universe, to discover new ones
and understand how they are connected
http://seevl.net
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4. http://vimeo.com/24751799
http://seevl.net
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5. dbpedia:Bad_Brains dbpedia:Hardcore_Punk
p:associatedActs p:genre p:genre
:alex foaf:topic_interest dbpedia:Beastie_Boys dbpedia:Black_Flag_(band)
p:currentMembers
dbpedia:Adam_Yauch dbpedia:B._B._King
skos:subject skos:subject
dbpedia:Category:American_vegatarians
Because music is much more
than sounds and context is king
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6. Semantic Web, we mean it
• RDF-based interlinking of Web data
• Music Ontology, FOAF, SKOS, DC
• Pure RDF storage (OpenLink Virtuoso)
• Graph-based recommendations and search
• SPARQL queries to generate the UI
• Content-negotiation (3scale dev. keys)
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8. alex@seevl.net
http://seevl.net
@seevl
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9. Back up slides
(video screenshots)
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