[ID3 Dev] ID3v1 Genre URI Recommendation

[Ben Bennett]

You could use the allmusic styles.  You would have to make a mapping
yourself, but there are far more allmusic styles than the standard
genres (even if you include the winamp ones) so it should be possible,

Hard rock is:
     http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:217

		  -ben

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:11:05PM +0100, Daniel Rabus wrote:
> Well, maybe my initial posting was a little bit unclear...
> 
> The Problem: There is still a need for some standardized mapping from a
> genre ID to an URI.
> 
> Background: In RDF it's essential to refer to a resource using a URI. So
> if I create a RDF description of a MP3 file, like
> 
> <rdf:Description>
> 	<dc:creator>Briskeby</dc:creator>
> 	<dc:title>Propaganda</dc:title>
> 	<dc:coverage rdf:resource="xxx"/>
> </rdf:Description>
> 
> then 'xxx' should point to a URI referring the genre "Pop". If the URI
> is resolvable, i.e. an URL, additional human readable information (maybe
> a definition) may be accessible. Also additional statements like "Pop is
> related to PopRock" will be possible. Let's think about search
> engines... :-)
> 
> Summary: The ID3 genre ID is a great concept to define the "kind of"
> music. Providing an semantically equivalent URI would raise additional
> benefits -- and allows proper integration into RDF.
> 
> Anyone sharing my thoughts? Comments or suggestions?
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> Mixmaster Slake schrieb:
> >Why not use the comment field?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> >>----- Original message -----
> >>From: "Daniel Rabus" <drabus at gmx.de>
> >>To: id3v2 at id3.org
> >>Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:08:01 +0100
> >>Subject: [ID3 Dev] ID3v1 Genre URI Recommendation
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>are there any recommendations to map the existing ID3v1 genres to an 
> >>URI? For any upcoming RDF applications this would be very useful. If 
> >>there isn't such a standard yet, one way might be to refer to a genre 
> >>listing and use the URL fragment as identifier.
> >>
> >>For example:
> >>http://www.id3.org/id3v1/genres#<genre ID>
> >>
> >>Any suggestions or existing solutions?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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