Jean-Philippe Fauconnier (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Joseph Roumier (CETIC, Belgium).
Music Linked Data Workshop, 12 May 2011, JISC, London.
J-P. Fauconnier, J. Roumier. Musonto - A Semantic Search Engine Dedicated to Music and Musicians
1. Music Linked Data Workshop @ London | 12 May 2011
Semantic Search Engine
Dedicated to Music & Musicians
Jean-Philippe Fauconnier
Joseph Roumier
Fabrice Estiévenart
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2. A. Data schema
1. Based on Basic Ontology
= Conceptual representation of knowledge in a given field
● Concepts form hierarchical sets
● Concepts are linked by semantic relations
Hierarchy of Concepts
Thing
MusicGenre Organisation Person
has for Genre
Properties has for Band
abstract Band Artist
stylisticOrigin
Properties Properties
...
genre band
... ...
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3. A. Data schema
2. Data comes from
● DBpedia's project
3. Data is potentially linked with For index's creation
● Myspace | Freebase | Flickr | ...
User & his/her query Ontological modeling
Search Engine
Linked w/
...
Generated documents
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4. B. Search Engine features Faceted Search
All Artists born in 1958
Legacy Full-text Search
All Blues Band of 4 members
Rock n roll ; Joe strummer ; in the seventies.
Fender ; Deep Purple ; ... ...
Scope of the faceted search
Band Artist
User &
his/her query
Internal Navigation
All bands from London Music Genre Label Town
All bands playing Surf Music
All bands signed to Polycord
...
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5. C. Methods
Extraction 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/band
No composers, music festivals, albums, songs, ...
Document generation
DBpedia Dump
Indexation
Extraction
w/ Perl
DOCUMENT
[ ... ] Champ Id : http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Ventures
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Ventures> Champ Title : « The Ventures »
<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> Champ Abstract : « The Ventures are a band ... »
<http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Band> . Champ CreationDate : 1958
[ ... ] Champ NbMembers : 5
...
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6. D. Pros & Cons
Pros
● Based on an ontology
Allows faceted search, use of semantic links
and internal navigation
● Similarity search and Serendipitous
Users 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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7. E. Contacts & Examples
1. Examples
●
Try the project @ http://ingrid.cetic.be:64808/engine/
2. Contacts
● Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Master student, UCL
jean-philippe.fauconnier@student.uclouvain.be
@jpfauconnier
● Joseph Roumier, R&D, CETIC
joseph.roumier@cetic.be
@jrcetic
● Fabrice Estiévenart, R&D, CETIC
fabrice.estievenart@cetic.be
@fab_estievenart
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8. F. Annexes
All annexes documents come from
http://ingrid.cetic.be:64808/engine/
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