Additionally, they are investigating implementing metadata from open music encyclopedia
MusicBrainz (http://www.music brainz.org) so that track listings, genre, and recording participants (i.e.
FlaBase combines information gathered from general KBs (e.g., Wikipedia, DBpedia), online music encyclopedias (e.g.,
MusicBrainz [https://musicbrainz.org/, accessed 16 September 2016]), and specialised flamenco Web sites (e.g., http://www.andalucia.org [accessed 16 September 2016]).
Six popular music datasets; RWC database, GTZAN genre collection, Uspop2002, MagnaTagATune,
Musicbrainz and MSD; were benchmarked based on relevance, quantity and quality.
With data pulled from a range of sources, including Wikipedia, Open Library,
MusicBrainz, EDGAR, and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, Freebase consists of data links from many reputable sources.
Semusic supports searching those objects with information integrated from open datasets of music such as
MusicBrainz, Wikipedia, and Tinysong.
The work is divided into sections by data type covering websites, people by email, people by name, people by account search terms, locations, companies, IP addresses and book, film, music and product names and individual entries deal with entities such as Flickr, Amazon, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Bing, Google Shopping and
Musicbrainz. Each entry includes useful example code and advice for accessing the resources.
This emerging web of data includes data sets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat,
MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, UniProt, FOAF, SIOC, OpenCyc, UMBEL, Virtual Observatories, and Yago.
Follow the arrow from the DBpedia bubble in the diagram to the top left, where it points to
MusicBrainz, the music metadata resource.
For example,
MusicBrainz is one of the first of what might be called Semantic Web services [12].
Links were created to external data sources such as the Virtual International Authority File (http://viaf.org),
MusicBrainz (https://musicbrainz .org/), and DBPedia (http://wiki.dbpedia.org [all accessed 11 March 2016]).
Metadata in the Spotify system comes from dedicated external sources:
MusicBrainz (track and album tags) and AllMusic (biographical information and images).
Amidst the fury over the loss of a database users believed would always be free, open source alternatives such as freedb.org and
MusicBrainz began as permanently-free replacements.