On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <
pfpschneider(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/24/2015 10:59 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Tom Morris
<tfmorris(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! Is there any more information on the issue with MusicBrainz?
>
> 17:26:27 <DanielK_WMDE> sjoerddebruin: yes, we went for MusicBrainz
first,
> but it turned out to be impractical. you
basically have to run their
> software in order to use their dumps
>
>
> MusicBrainz was a major source of information for Freebase, so they
appear
to have
been able to figure out how to parse the dumps (and they already
have the MusicBrainz & Wikipedia IDs correlated).
Is there more detail, perhaps in a bug somewhere?
The issue is that they do offer dumps but you need to set up your own
musicbrainz server to really use it. This was too time-intensive and
complicated for the students to make progress on during their project.
Because of this they decided to instead opt for another dataset
instead to get started. In the future Musicbrainz should still get
done. If anyone wants to work on adding more datasets to the tool
please let me know.
Cheers
Lydia
This is to add MusicBrainz to the primary source tool, not anything else?
It's apparently worse than that (which I hadn't realized until I re-read
the transcript). It sounds like it's just going to generate little warning
icons for "bad" facts and not lead to the recording of any new facts at all.
17:22:33 <Lydia_WMDE> we'll also work on getting the extension
deployed that will help with checking against 3rd party
databases17:23:33 <Lydia_WMDE> the result of constraint checks and
checks against 3rd party databases will then be used to display little
indicators next to a statement in case it is problematic17:23:47
<Lydia_WMDE> i hope this way more people become aware of issues and
can help fix them17:24:35 <sjoerddebruin> Do you have any names of
databases that are supported? :)17:24:59 <Lydia_WMDE> sjoerddebruin:
in the first version the german national library. it can be extended
later
I know Freebase is deemed to be nasty and unreliable, but is MusicBrainz
considered trustworthy enough to import directly or will its facts need to
be dripped through the primary source soda straw one at a time too?
Tom