Magnatune is an independent music label, allowing people to buy records for as much as they want. DBTune aims at publishing and interlinking such music-related repositories on the Semantic Web, using RDF and the Music Ontology.
This effort is part of the Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web community project, hosted by the Semantic Web Education and Outreach interest group.
This service aims at publishing and interlinking with relevant data sources the Magnatune data set.
All resource identifiers defined by this RDF dump are dereferencable, and support content negotiation. Using the Accept: application/rdf+xml header field, a RDF/XML representation of the resource is sent back. Otherwise, a HTML representation, done using Zitgist, is sent back.
Here are some entry points to the dataset:
The dump also exposes some informational RDF documents. However, they do not load properly into DISCO (due to the small time out value on the server side). It works fine using the Tabulator though.
Such documents are:
To test them using a Semantic Web browser, load one of them into the Tabulator (eg. http://dbtune.org/magnatune/all/artist) and then look for http://purl.org/ontology/mo/MusicArtist. You will then see the list of all Jamendo MusicArtist instances.
The service also exposes a SPARQL end-point, available at http://dbtune.org:2020/sparql/. There is also a small web interface available at http://dbtune.org:2020/.
The RDF dump is available for download. The package holds the raw Jamendo data converted to RDF (available under the same license than the raw Jamendo data itself), as well as the links towards Geonames and the links towards Musicbrainz. These links are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License (subject to change, ask me).
The RDF dump was created using D2R server.
The tool handling dereferencable identifiers is available here. It is a small HTTP server implementing content negotiation. The behavior of the server is specified by a declarative mapping from resource identifiers to the location of their representation.