Author Archives: zazi0815

About zazi0815

believe in music to survive (for further information check out the gravatar profile, please)

My contributions to the LinkedBrainz project

Posted on July 29, 2011 by zazi0815

I worked over the last month on the LinkedBrainz project. I was responsible for continuing the mapping of the MusicBrainz Next Generation Schema (MBZ NGS) into appropriated descriptions that make use of various Semantic Web ontologies (especially the Music Ontology … Continue reading →

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Semantic Federation of Music and Music-Related Information for Establishing a Personal Music Knowledge Base

Posted on July 17, 2011 by zazi0815

Finally, I finished my studies in May 2011. I’m now a degreed something (I would prefer the name Philosphical Engineer or Data Engineer or something like that 😉 ). Since I’m still struggling with formatting my thesis into HTML (LaTeX … Continue reading →

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Musical Characteristics Analysis

Posted on March 11, 2011 by zazi0815

This is a follow-up post of the recently published one that introduced a categorisation of musical characteristics. Even the process of feature extraction and derivation from audio signals is a rather complex one. The graphic above illustrates an abstraction of … Continue reading →

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Categories of Musical Characteristics

Posted on February 26, 2011 by zazi0815

The phenomenon of music in its full range can be described by manifold concepts and subjective perceived features. In a nutshell these are musical characteristics. Their origins are varied from sciences i.e., physics, psychoacoustics, music theory, and musicology, or they … Continue reading →

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A generalisation of the Linked Data publishing guideline

Posted on February 17, 2011 by zazi0815

Initially (in summer 2006), Tim Berners Lee composed the Linked Data publishing guideline to address shortcomings of predominant data providing practices in the Web and to promote the benefits of utilizing Semantic Web knowledge representation models for that issue. Later, … Continue reading →

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The common, layered Semantic Web technology stack

Posted on January 10, 2011 by zazi0815

Here is a visualization of the common, layered Semantic Web technology stack. This graphic is a modified version of the Semantic Web technology stack visualization created by Benjamin Nowack. This figure is freely usable and sharable under the Creative Common … Continue reading →

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Ontologies and Vocabularies in the PMKB* space

Posted on December 20, 2010 by zazi0815

It’s time to present an overview of applied, related, modified and created ontologies and vocabularies I’m currently working with. The graphic above shows an overview of applied ontologies and vocabularies in the knowledge representation model of the personal music knowledge … Continue reading →

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The Recommendation Ontology

Posted on August 7, 2010 by zazi0815

Hello everybody, today I like to present the Recommendation Ontology, which is an ontology for modeling high level recommendations on/ for the Semantic Web. Thereby, the ontology hook up parts of the Similarity Ontology, DCMI Metadata Terms, the Association Ontology … Continue reading →

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The Play Back Ontology

Posted on July 27, 2010 by zazi0815

Hello everybody, today I like to present the Play Back Ontology, whose use cases are trying to combine and extend the previous announced ontologies (Ordered List Ontology, Counter Ontology and Association Ontology) and of course further ontologies (e.g. Music Ontology, … Continue reading →

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