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welcome back everyone um thank you

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for

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bearing with us until the end of today

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um

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next up we have

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daniel giving us a talk about

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musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org

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um daniel is a frequent lca attendee and

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i remember him coming to our first ever

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go glam which was fantastic so it's good

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to see familiar faces giving talks i've

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been going to as many as lcas as you

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oh geez

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it's been a long time then um he's also

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a music enthusiast and i will hand

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straight over to daniel thanks

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okay

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hey everyone um

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i'm gonna

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give an introduction to two projects

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that i've been editing in

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um for many many years

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hopefully

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you learned something

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so about me um

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i'm daniel sobi i'm from adelaide

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i attend the conf um sort of in my

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spare time sitting in front of the tv

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i occasionally edit a website called

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musicbrainz.org

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um

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i have 31 000 edits and i'm not one of

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the software developers or

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there's things called auto editors that

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can auto approve things i'm just a

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normal

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person that's just been stuck around for

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so the two projects

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that i'm going to talk about is a

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musicbrainz.org

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it's a website

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it's got music data it's got people

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things about artists labels

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recordings it's

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not necessarily all music

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there are things like audio books and

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other things that are sort of music

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we don't really care if it's a

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commercial cd or

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someone's soundcloud that they've

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uploaded something it just

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has to exist

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and uh the other project um

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i'm going to talk about is uh

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wikidata.org

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it's sort of a

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parallel database used by wikipedia

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to um

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to link

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all the sites together and to store

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factual information

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so there's going to be things like the

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height of

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everest and the height of all the large

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presidents

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all sorts of things

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films you name it there's probably an

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it's a

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another database

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that anyone can edit and they sort of

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have two different approaches to how

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they're structured a bit so it's sort of

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related sort of do things differently

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hopefully if i get to it i'll

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explain some of that on the way

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it's database of musicbrainz it's

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database of audio recordings

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um each entity has a

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really important because

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there's an awful lot of name collision

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and that's sort of thing so there are

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two bands called pendulum

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they both have rear awards

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you have to be able to say which one it

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such a big database

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it's old user pretty much all user

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there's pretty much no bots that edit

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and run by a

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non-profit organization called

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metabrains.org

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they do get funding

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the data is all public

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mostly creative com zero license

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uh they get funding from uh things like

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so we provide the raw data and

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they'll use the data to help fix up

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their system and that's sort of

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um been enough to help

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fund the organization and keep a few

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key employees keeping the lights on

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there's a public api

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anyone can do um use it

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uh the thing that we need

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from that if you're gonna use the public

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in your http headers you need to include

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a string to say who you are so we can

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that is occasionally being needed and

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hitting the api every nas that

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was in existence was hitting the api so

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that eventually they decided to block

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them and if you need to

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use the api you need to say can you

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please unblock me until they updated the

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software to not pit than that every

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single every five minutes

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each entry hasn't edited history

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so you can easily say who was the idiot

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okay hopefully it's not you that made it

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stuff things up

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the basic data structure is we've got

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which i'll get to in a minute but that's

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overall concept of an album so

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right societies and that sort of thing

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that you as an editor can add and

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further level of a release

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that's hosted by archive.org for on our

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educations that i'd like to

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it's just pcm audio

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and

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it's got a

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when you put in a cd it reads

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the table of contents is start at

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one minute start at three minutes

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started five minutes for the next track

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with a two seven gap

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um there are a handful of cds that have

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hidden tracks

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so you put the cd in

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you press rewind and there's hidden data

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there

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so

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if you've got some of the early hilltop

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hoods

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they have hidden tracks

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it's just them chatting but

321
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some cool things like that

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um

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the other example

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um

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is a from

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nine inch nails broken

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what they did is

328
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the maximum tracks that you can have on

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a cd is 99

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so they had

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the first six were normal

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then

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a whole bunch of tracks that had

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a fraction of a second as audio and then

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the last two

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are the tracks 98 and 99 so

337
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if you've got a cd player

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it would play skip to last two and you

339
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can't go back really easily because

340
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there's a whole bunch of silence

341
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so

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recordings is where you add an awful lot

343
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of data

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if you it's sort of up to the users how

345
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um

346
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good the data is but

347
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uh the schema allowance for things like

348
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who played best bass guitar who played

349
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keyboard who who

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sung so

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with some of these really popular tracks

352
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you get

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extra data that you can use to tag your

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music

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and

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the other thing is they usually if you

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someone's gone to the time

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they'll have works

359
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so works is

360
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who wrote the thing

361
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um

362
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it's got um

363
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ids from right societies

364
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allowing someone else to

365
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double check your work

366
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and

367
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they're all linked to

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to who actually wrote it and

369
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yeah

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um

371
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the other thing that

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uh

373
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you want to take note of is uh classical

374
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music

375
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uh

376
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in music brains is sort of

377
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more important

378
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to have works than it is to have

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artists on track

380
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because the classical music

381
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they tend to deal with

382
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um

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barriers which have movements and sub

384
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sub subsections so having that sort of

385
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structure

386
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as a series of works that link to other

387
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sub works

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allows

389
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people that are interested in classical

390
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music to say

391
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i want this want to listen to this bits

392
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um

393
00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,760
so

394
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if you've got time

395
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feel free to look at

396
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there's also labels

397
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which is sort of who you are into the

398
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copyright and who is the publisher

399
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and uh

400
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there's a

401
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list of string

402
00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,920
list of uh

403
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series is sort of something that they've

404
00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,760
added

405
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sort of five years ago for things like

406
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compilation albums which

407
00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:34,639
it's going to be the ministry is down

408
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year number

409
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that sort of thing

410
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so everything is a

411
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sort of fixed structure

412
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um creating

413
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um

414
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[Music]

415
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creating new relationships that's sort

416
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of hard coded

417
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so

418
00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:54,399
there's a lot of

419
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asking in forums discussing tickets on

420
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what gets added

421
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and some things like musical instruments

422
00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,839
there's a person that

423
00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,480
has a list of possible music instruments

424
00:16:05,839 --> 00:16:11,759
and you've got to ask them to add it to

425
00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,800
the system in the background back end

426
00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:15,040
um

427
00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,120
there's a query api which

428
00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,800
you send it a string and it'll return

429
00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,000
you with the album or the barcode or

430
00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,040
something like that

431
00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:26,240
and then you probably want to look up

432
00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:28,079
quit do a look up thing to say give me

433
00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,120
info about this id

434
00:16:28,079 --> 00:16:31,120
this

435
00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:33,360
album

436
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,480
release group etc

437
00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,880
so the other

438
00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:39,360
sort of related thing

439
00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,600
if i've got time is um

440
00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:44,320
let's talk about wikidata

441
00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:46,639
so that sort of built in

442
00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:49,600
a different sort of thing it's

443
00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:52,079
everything is item property value

444
00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,480
so everything's built from that sort of

445
00:16:52,079 --> 00:16:55,360
basic structure

446
00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,720
so

447
00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,560
if you go to

448
00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,560
daf punk's wiki data entry

449
00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:07,120
it's an instance of an electronic

450
00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:09,120
uh electronic duo which is a

451
00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:12,559
instance of a musical group

452
00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:12,559
they've got start and end years

453
00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:18,439
he does good for things like um

454
00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:23,439
awards received

455
00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:25,120
you can easily add more rewards so they

456
00:17:23,439 --> 00:17:28,160
find a grammy

457
00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:28,160
record that properly

458
00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,799
and it's another thing for

459
00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,200
good source of

460
00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:36,400
including external line identifiers

461
00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,400
so you can

462
00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,400
from music brains you can link to

463
00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,640
wikidata and from wikidata you can link

464
00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:46,240
back to musicbrainz so

465
00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:49,120
looking at one you can look at the other

466
00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:50,480
um properties are added so relationships

467
00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:54,799
are added

468
00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,799
through a voting process process

469
00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,640
you sort of

470
00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,280
go through that process and say i want

471
00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:04,320
to have

472
00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,760
for pro something so going from a talk

473
00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,400
earlier

474
00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,520
if i could

475
00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,960
add my

476
00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,720
web id

477
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,640
from talk earlier

478
00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:18,160
that was a

479
00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,160
something that was proposed

480
00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,960
and

481
00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:24,880
give it a what format of your urls uh

482
00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:27,679
and

483
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:29,039
pattern matching and that's how wikidata

484
00:18:27,679 --> 00:18:31,440
extends there

485
00:18:29,039 --> 00:18:32,640
possible things that you can

486
00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,679
uh

487
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,440
use

488
00:18:33,679 --> 00:18:36,880
so querying

489
00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:42,120
um

490
00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,120
is done through a thing called a graphql

491
00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:48,640
it's done through a thing called a spa

492
00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:50,640
through a sparkle i mean

493
00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,320
it sort of looks like this

494
00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,679
you

495
00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,840
you have a

496
00:18:53,679 --> 00:18:58,960
list of select

497
00:18:54,840 --> 00:19:01,120
statements so you define what you want

498
00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,960
you'll have

499
00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:05,120
a list of where sort of

500
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:08,720
clauses to say

501
00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:10,240
this property on an entry

502
00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,799
look for things with this property on

503
00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,320
the entry

504
00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:17,200
where's

505
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,080
exist or not exist this such and such

506
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,799
limit

507
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,840
so this is sort of the

508
00:19:20,799 --> 00:19:23,280
that's

509
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,679
thing um

510
00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:28,160
so

511
00:19:25,679 --> 00:19:31,039
changing gears to

512
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:34,000
if you wanted to look at

513
00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:35,520
uh things with the act my id

514
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,280
this is the sort of query that you'd

515
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,120
have to say

516
00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:42,720
give me the

517
00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:42,720
act my id which is that there

518
00:19:43,039 --> 00:19:47,360
and

519
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,720
optionally return genre if they've got

520
00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:49,840
that on the

521
00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,679
film

522
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:55,919
option include the country the director

523
00:19:53,679 --> 00:19:57,120
and based on so

524
00:19:55,919 --> 00:19:59,200
there's all sorts of things that you can

525
00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:00,640
do with

526
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,559
with that so

527
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,159
i think my time is

528
00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:06,880
nearly up

529
00:20:04,159 --> 00:20:09,120
so

530
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,720
yes thank you so much and we've actually

531
00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:12,080
got quite a few questions for you which

532
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,480
is fantastic

533
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:17,120
um first question is are there any

534
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:21,240
metadata standards for this stuff or is

535
00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:21,240
music brains just the de facto

536
00:20:22,559 --> 00:20:26,880
it's we've got an api and you use the

537
00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,000
api it's yeah

538
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,960
it's all

539
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,159
um

540
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:34,240
it's available in

541
00:20:31,159 --> 00:20:36,000
json.xml idf

542
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,720
it's sort of

543
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,280
it used to be

544
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:43,840
they've de-emphasized idf because

545
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,960
no one was really using it it was an api

546
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,280
that no one

547
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:49,039
really used so everyone just uses json

548
00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,080
yeah pretty much

549
00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:52,880
okay

550
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:56,720
um how does music brains deal with

551
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,720
erroneous or conflicting data

552
00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:03,120
um

553
00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:05,840
it's usually someone will edit it out so

554
00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:06,880
i think the data quality is it's pretty

555
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:11,520
much

556
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:13,679
there is 90 95 accurate

557
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:16,000
looking at random cd

558
00:21:13,679 --> 00:21:16,880
find the occasional typho here or there

559
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000
but

560
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,080
um sort of

561
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,720
because the way that the editing system

562
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:26,159
is it enforces constraints so that

563
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:28,080
people are less likely to make idiot

564
00:21:26,159 --> 00:21:30,159
moves you sort of

565
00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,760
feeds you down the path to the most

566
00:21:30,159 --> 00:21:34,480
correct

567
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:39,200
data and someone can then

568
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:39,200
um come back later and fix your mistakes

569
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,840
um in the streaming world how does music

570
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,840
brains work

571
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,559
it

572
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:54,000
doesn't really make a difference it's an

573
00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:54,799
album it's got a list of tracks

574
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,760
it

575
00:21:54,799 --> 00:21:57,280
yeah

576
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,520
it

577
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:01,280
there's a digital medium so

578
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:04,000
you might get

579
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,039
it that it's digital and that's it

580
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000
okay

581
00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:09,760
um do record labels or artists send data

582
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,840
to music brains in a way that can be

583
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:14,640
ingested easily or are they just

584
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:17,280
generally unhelpful

585
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,679
uh they're generally unhelpful there's

586
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:22,240
there's been a few proposals of back-end

587
00:22:19,679 --> 00:22:22,240
systems but

588
00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:27,600
they've sort of been

589
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,559
against automation a fair bit it's sort

590
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,799
of

591
00:22:28,559 --> 00:22:34,960
we want quality instead of

592
00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:34,960
random junk that the label sent you so

593
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:41,120
yeah um and one last question is it only

594
00:22:38,799 --> 00:22:43,360
via api or are there forms that people

595
00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:45,280
can fill in to

596
00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:48,880
add data

597
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:50,799
so you just go the website

598
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,280
if you want to

599
00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:53,280
find a

600
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:58,960
find dark punk

601
00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:02,240
punk

602
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,240
so say if i wanted to

603
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,440
edit this and

604
00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:09,600
mess with the title or something

605
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,640
forget it

606
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,120
and

607
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,559
that's the title ah cool

608
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change the

609
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article

610
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something else

611
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click next next

612
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and

613
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click accept but you need to put in that

614
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note to say what you're doing so

615
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,120
yeah

616
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sort of now that seems quite simple you

617
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follow the bounding box and hopefully

618
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get there

619
00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:39,120
we should um we should all contribute to

620
00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:41,360
this um what's relatively easy today so

621
00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:43,840
um that's fantastic well thank you so

622
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much daniel that's um

623
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,559
it was great to see those those two

624
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,400
there's two sites for us to contribute

625
00:23:48,559 --> 00:23:52,080
to because i always know that i'm happy

626
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:55,440
to put in

627
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:58,080
more data where possible to help out so

628
00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:00,400
thank you so much

629
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,880
go to musicbrainz.org

630
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,279
download a program called picard

631
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,679
that's the tagger that they work on and

632
00:24:05,279 --> 00:24:10,320
there's a few other taggers so

633
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some of the cd rippers will

634
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:16,320
you put the cd in it'll

635
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automatically retrieve the data

636
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wonderful

637
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:22,520
thank you

638
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,520
okay thank you