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

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

I agree to your idea that if a better-suited data source exists somewhere,
we should use it, but it doesn't work here for technical reasons. You can't
ask wikipedia for composers born in France currently, and you probably never
will (if one day wikipedia was able to do this, it would have to change it's
name to something like databasepedia ;-) ). The best you can have currently
is a link to a link to wikipedia's page So if you can't ask it to wikipedia,
linking MB and wikipedia won't work either!

2007/11/2, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org>:
>
> 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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Frederic Da Vitoria
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