Classical Music in the Web of Data

I have finally re-published the classical music composer influence data set I've been working with in a proper Linked Data fashion. You might remember this data set from this relatively recent post or this much older post where I describe some complex networks statistics and the original collection of the data set. This rather modestly sized data set contains just under 8,000 triples. Of course you can make SPARQL queries against the data here or you can browse around w/ your favorite data browser or even your plain-old html web browser. I've implemented content negotiation using the data-resource-page paradigm you might recognize from DBpedia.org.

I've done most of this with Openlink Virtuoso - the all singing all dancing web of data server solution. Although some things in Virtuoso didn't work exactly right at first and it's a bit rough around the edges, it is an awesome piece of software. It's so feature-rich it can be a bit daunting, but the Openlink guys are quick to help on the mailing list.

In the near future we will be publishing our MySpace data set from ISMIR 2008 in a similar fashion...