Musicbrainz for The World: The Chilean Experience.
Citation: Gabriel Vigliensoni, John Ashley Burgoyne, Ichiro Fujinaga (2013) Musicbrainz for The World: The Chilean Experience.. ISMIR (RSS)
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Summary
Info about music published all over the web, often lost. Makes sense to publish to a central database. Authors' goal is to take semi-organized info about Chilean music published on many websites and publish in an centralized open source music database for searchability and longevity.
Music metadata can be of three types:
- descriptive: "for purposes of identification and discovery"
- structural: "for expressing relationships among resources"
- administrative: "for managing resources"
Compares FreeDB, MusicMoz, Discogs, and MusicBrainz music databases. Authors select MusicBrainz for:
- Having broadest scope (others focused on physical releases)
- Capable of storing structural and administrative metadata
- Style guidelines for 30 languages
- Most "open" because it allows linking to data on other websites
Describe 5 sites with metadata for Chilean music.
Describe harvesting and consolidating data from those 5 sites.
Describe data matching with MusicBrainz, experimentally dealing with false positives.
Future work:
- Publish data to MusicBrainz (but MusicBrainz API does not facilitate automation)
- Do audio analysis on Chilean music corpus
