Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-08 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, Yes, that's a good idea. We might also want to take this discussion over to the dataincubator list (again! :) rather than continue here. Cheers, L. On 8 June 2010 18:23, Kurt J wrote: >> As pointed out earlier in the thread, the code for the conversion can >> be found here: >> >> http://co

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-08 Thread Kurt J
> As pointed out earlier in the thread, the code for the conversion can > be found here: > > http://code.google.com/p/dataincubator/source/browse/#svn/trunk/discogs/scripts > Hi Leigh - should we go ahead and start using the issue cue associated with that project to document the Unicode problems

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-08 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, On 7 June 2010 13:51, zazi wrote: > Hi Leigh, > > I contacted you a while ago re. the Discogs dataset. It would be glad, > if you could send me the mapping code you wrote for the Discogs RDFizer. > I plan to include such a RDFizer also in my Master-like project, so I > would be very happy to

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-08 Thread zazi
Hi Leigh, I contacted you a while ago re. the Discogs dataset. It would be glad, if you could send me the mapping code you wrote for the Discogs RDFizer. I plan to include such a RDFizer also in my Master-like project, so I would be very happy to have a nice starting project, where I can conti

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-07 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, As already noted the discogs data is still live, but I failed to load the void description hence the home page not resolving properly. I'll aim to get that fixed ASAP. As Kurt pointed out the code for the conversion is available if anyone needs it. I was intending to try and hack up a fix fo

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-04 Thread Matthew Rowe
Kurts, Mats, Kingsley Thanks for the info. So to clarify, there is access to a Discogs dataset but it has the issues which you raised. I would be interested in working on the interlinking aspect to get resources correctly synched with dbtunes and maybe dbpedia concepts also. Who was worki

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread mats . gls
> > this is a data set i really want too somebody know a way around > the unicode problem??? > > Maybe find stuff like these "ï" with a regexp and then replace them with the correct unicode chars. In Python something like this looped through each line of the files should work I think: impor

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Kurt J
Hellos > The main major thing lacking now I think is links[1] to MusicBrainz, and I > don't think that can be done without a dump. Apart from that, the mappings > are also incomplete. The ruby code can be found at dataincubator[2]. but plz note the UTF-8 problems in the underlying dump as discuss

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread mats . gls
The main major thing lacking now I think is links[1] to MusicBrainz, and I don't think that can be done without a dump. Apart from that, the mappings are also incomplete. The ruby code can be found at dataincubator[2]. 1. http://blog.dbtune.org/post/2007/06/11/Linking-open-data%3A-interlinking-the

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Kurt J
Hello, >> Does anyone know the state of play wrt a linked dataset describing Discogs >> (the music/record site)? I've spent some time w/ Discogs stuff - it needs some work. The links to DBpedia are broken b/c of some capitalization errors, and the artist URIs and foaf:names are a bit borked b/c

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/3/10 7:07 AM, Matthew Rowe wrote: Does anyone know the state of play wrt a linked dataset describing Discogs (the music/record site)? There have always been Virtuoso Sponger [1] Cartridges (Basic and Meta) for Discogs. Examples: 1. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/entity/http

Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Rowe
Does anyone know the state of play wrt a linked dataset describing Discogs (the music/record site)? I know that Leigh Dodds did some work about a year ago [1] but it appears that the data incubator page for the dataset is not active. There is also a SPARQL endpoint to the data at [2] but no