MySpace RDF service
By Yves on Wednesday 12 March 2008, 17:20 - Permalink
Thanks to the amazing work of Kurt and Ben on the MyPySpace project, members of the MySpace social network can have a Semantic Web URI!
This small service provides such URIs and corresponding FOAF (top friends, depiction, name) and Music Ontology (URIs of available tracks in the streaming audio cache) RDF representations.
That means I can add such statements to my FOAF profile:
<http://moustaki.org/foaf.rdf#moustaki> foaf:knows <http://dbtune.org/myspace/lesversaillaisesamoustache>.
And then, using the Tabulator Firefox extension:
PS: The service is still a bit slow and can be highly unstable, though - it is slightly faster with URIs using MySpace UIDs.
PS2: We don't host any data - everything is scraped on the fly using the MyPySpace tools.
Comments
Marvellous!
btw, one thing I'm curious about, how to express something like this - say you got an artist known as "The Edge", member of "U2" real name "David Howell Evans"...I'm thinking that he's only really known as that in his role in U2, so it's not quite the same as a foaf:nick
Hey good times! MyPySpace is fun. So, I've poked at the newly released OpenSocial mySpace API and I think I should be able to augment the existing MyPySpace routines to attempt to us the API first and only scrape when that fails. Once this gets working it should greatly improve the response time issues. Also, thanks generally for the plug.
Hi Danny!
Indeed (I think Tom Morris made a similar comment at the Semantic Camp) how should we deal with "avatars"? For example, how would we make the connection between David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust?
Cheers!
y
Great post. Saludos desde madrid (Hello from Madrid)
Really cool post Danny