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Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


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8 January 2007

Giasson, Music ontology

Filed under: Blog Mentions, Music, Semantic Web — William Denton @ 7:32 am

Frédérick Giasson posted Major Revision (1.01) of the Music Ontology on his blog on Saturday. If you’re interested in FRBR as applied to music, or the knottier questions of aggregate works, have a dekko.

The ontology took a major shift by its deep integration with the FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) ontologies.

As you will see with the classes schemas bellow, all the MO classes related with music are sub classes of FRBR classes. The FRBR ontology is used as the basement of musical works. So as you will see, a mo:Album is a sub class of a mo:MusicalWork and this class is a sub class of the frbr:Work class. This means that an album is ultimately a work in the sense of the FRBR ontology.

He includes some sample SPARQL queries at the bottom. Check the comments, too.