j-p. fauconnier, j. roumier. musonto - a semantic search engine dedicated to music and musicians
DESCRIPTION
Jean-Philippe Fauconnier (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Joseph Roumier (CETIC, Belgium). Music Linked Data Workshop, 12 May 2011, JISC, London.TRANSCRIPT
1Music Linked Data Workshop, London ~ Semantic Musical Search Engine
Jean-Philippe FauconnierJoseph RoumierFabrice Estiévenart
Music Linked Data Workshop @ London | 12 May 2011
Semantic Search EngineDedicated to Music & Musicians
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A. Data schema1. Based on Basic Ontology
= Conceptual representation of knowledge in a given field● Concepts form hierarchical sets● Concepts are linked by semantic relations
Thing
MusicGenre Organisation
Properties abstract stylisticOrigin ...
Person
Band Artist
Hierarchy of Concepts
Properties genre ...
has for Genrehas for Band
Properties band ...
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2. Data comes from● DBpedia's project
3. Data is potentially linked with
● Myspace | Freebase | Flickr | ...
A. Data schema
Search Engine Ontological modeling
For index's creation
User & his/her query
Generated documents
Linked w/ ...
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Band Artist
Music Genre Label
User & his/her query
Scope of the faceted search
B. Search Engine features
Town
Music Linked Data Workshop, London ~ Semantic Musical Search Engine
Legacy Full-text Search Rock n roll ; Joe strummer ;Fender ; Deep Purple ; ...
Faceted Search All Artists born in 1958 All Blues Band of 4 membersin the seventies. ...
Internal Navigation All bands from London All bands playing Surf Music All bands signed to Polycord ...
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C. MethodsExtraction of RDF Triplets from Dbpedia Dump
● Use Perl Language to treat Large Data● Selection of relevant features of data● Focusing to Popular music and Artist/bandNo composers, music festivals, albums, songs, ...
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[ ... ]<http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Ventures> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type><http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Band> .[ ... ]
DBpedia Dump
DOCUMENTChamp Id : http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_VenturesChamp Title : « The Ventures »Champ Abstract : « The Ventures are a band ... »Champ CreationDate : 1958Champ NbMembers : 5 ...
Extractionw/ Perl
Document generation
Indexation
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D. Pros & Cons
Music Linked Data Workshop, London ~ Semantic Musical Search Engine
Pros● Based on an ontology
Allows faceted search, use of semantic links and internal navigation
● Similarity search and SerendipitousUsers can find documents unrelated to initial research
Cons● High Dependence on Dbpedia Server!
Although the initial search can be operated without Dbpedia,the document generation depends entirely on DBpedia.
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E. Contacts & Examples
2. Contacts● Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Master student, [email protected]@jpfauconnier● Joseph Roumier, R&D, [email protected]@jrcetic● Fabrice Estiévenart, R&D, [email protected]@fab_estievenart
Music Linked Data Workshop, London ~ Semantic Musical Search Engine
1. Examples● Try the project @ http://ingrid.cetic.be:64808/engine/
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F. Annexes
Music Linked Data Workshop, London ~ Semantic Musical Search Engine
All annexes documents come fromhttp://ingrid.cetic.be:64808/engine/
