[mb-users] Is their an artist property for an artists place of birth ?

[Philip Jägenstedt]

In other words, if I know that a person was born in France I'm not
able to convey that information because the required format
(geographical coordinates) are more specific than I know. I think this
would be the case for a very large portion of our artists, as detailed
biographic information isn't available for most less known artists.
But I shouldn't say I oppose any of this strongly, since I'm actually
not that passionate about the issue (or shouldn't be).

Wikipedia does not provide RDF formatted data that I am aware, and
neither does MusicBrainz (anymore), my point is just that instead of
tying more data not related to music into the database we ought to
work towards solutions where we can use the work that others have
already done instead of duplicating the effort.

Philip

On 11/2/07, Paul Taylor <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> > I would be strongly opposed to the longitude/latitude thing, unless
> > someone has ideas about what to do when you only know that someone was
> > born in France but not where (and if the person has been dead for 200
> > years we perhaps cannot know). Do we use Paris? Do we draw a polygon
> > of coordinates following the border of France as it was 200 years ago?
> >
> In this case you dont enter the information as it is clear you dont have
> the information.Im suprised your so against the longitude/latitude idea
> because it was you raised the issue of borders in the first place.
> > Searches for "female singers born in Italy who have starred in at
> > least one Hollywood film" are cool, but we should do them by cleverly
> > connecting to other databases such as Wikipedia and IMDb (i.e.
> > semantic web).
> >
> Do Wikpedia/1MDb provide this information in RDF format (or equivalent)
> then , I wasnt aware of this ?
>
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