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

[Paul Taylor]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
>
> However, even if the English language Wikipedia doesn't always 
> mention the birth place in a systematic way, there are ways to dig 
> most of that information out from a database dump.  One project 
> that already does such things is http://dbpedia.org/
>
>   
The dpedia link is interesting, but I downloaded the Persons database 
from http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads and did some searches for some 
vary popular artists such as 'David Bowie' or 'Elton John' and although 
they were in the list, their place of birth wasnt recorded, all entries 
seem to be in German so must be coming from german wikipedia lars 
mentioned. I  found or some other artists such as Dizzee Rascal which 
did have place of birth but only at nationality level.

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dizzee_Rascal> 
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "Mills, Dylan"@de .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dizzee_Rascal> 
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenname> "Dylan"@de .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dizzee_Rascal> 
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/surname> "Mills"@de .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dizzee_Rascal> 
<http://dbpedia.org/property/birthPlace> 
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_Kingdom> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dizzee_Rascal> 
<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description> "britischer 
Grime-Musiker"@de .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Dizzee_Rascal> 
<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> 
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person>


So assume wouldnt link to dbpedia, but could exctract some information 
but not at the level of detail I was hoping for.

Anyway feedback seems quite positive for this so added as request for 
enhancement

Paul