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Open data on my Brain(z)

Community powered open data

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Arrangement

  • Me!
  • Open data: what and why
  • Open data = government data?
  • MetaBrainz and its projects
  • Coda

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Who’s this brain?

  • Freso / Frederik Sandberg Olesen
    • @Freso, freso@metabrainz.org
  • MusicBrainz contributor since 2006
    • MetaBrainz Community Manager since 2015
  • Open source and data contributor to many projects for many, many years
    • LiveJournal, Drupal, Lutris, LOOT, …

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Why open source?

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Why open source?

  • Cost (free as in pizza)
    • Rapid innovation
  • Freedom (free as in freedom)
    • No vendor tie‐in
    • Interoperability
  • Community
    • Democratic control
    • Self-empowerment

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Why open data?

  • Cost (free as in pizza)
    • Rapid innovation
  • Freedom (free as in freedom)
    • No vendor tie‐in
    • Interoperability
  • Community
    • Democratic control
    • Self-empowerment

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Open Data and the State

  • https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+data
    • Data.gov
    • Wikipedia
    • Opendatahandbook.org
    • Data.ny.gov
    • Data.vbgov.com
  • Almost all „open data“ references are governmental

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Open Data and the People

  • Wikidata
    • Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)
  • Open Food Facts / Open Beauty Facts
  • MusicBrainz
    • MetaBrainz Foundation
      • AcousticBrainz
      • ListenBrainz
      • BookBrainz
      • Alot of Brainz!

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Alot of Brainz

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MetaBrainz

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MetaBrainz

  • «The MetaBrainz Foundation is a non-profit that believes in free, open access to data. It has been set up to build community maintained databases and make them available in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses.»
  • http://metabrainz.org/
  • Founded 2004

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MusicBrainz

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MusicBrainz

  • Heard of MusicBrainz?
  • Used MusicBrainz?

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MusicBrainz

  • «MusicBrainz is a community-maintained open source music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.»
  • https://musicbrainz.org/
  • Started 2000
    • CD Index, 1998–2000
  • CC0 / CC by-sa-nc

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MusicBrainz: Data

  • MBIDs: MusicBrainz identifiers
  • Artists, Releases, Release Groups, Labels, Recordings, Works, Events, Places, Areas, URLs
  • Wide and narrow
  • Linked
    • Internally and externally
  • Machine readable
  • https://musicbrainz.org/
  • Started 2000
    • CD Index, 1998–2000
  • CC0 / CC by-sa-nc

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MusicBrainz: Users

  • Link to/from other data sources
    • Wikidata
  • AcoustID
  • FanArt.tv
  • Software talking „MBID“:
    • Taggers: MusicBrainz Picard, beets
    • Players: Kodi, VLC, Rhythmbox
    • wiki: MusicBrainz Enabled Applications
  • https://metabrainz.org/supporters
  • https://musicbrainz.org/
  • Started 2000
    • CD Index, 1998–2000
  • CC0 / CC by-sa-nc

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AcousticBrainz

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AcousticBrainz

  • «AcousticBrainz crowd sources acoustic information for all music in the world and makes it available to the public.»
  • With: Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s Music Technology Group
  • https://acousticbrainz.org/
  • Started 2014
  • CC0

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AcousticBrainz: Data

  • Acoustic classifiers:
    • Tonality
    • Rhythm
    • Tempo
    • Vocals
  • Linked with MusicBrainz
    • Using MBIDs
  • https://acousticbrainz.org/
  • Started 2014
  • CC0

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ListenBrainz

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ListenBrainz

  • «The ListenBrainz project is similar to the original AudioScrobbler®. Unlike the original project, ListenBrainz is open source and will publish its data as open data.»
  • https://listenbrainz.org/
  • Started 2015
    • currently: alpha/beta
  • CC0

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ListenBrainz: Purpose

  • Preserve users’ Last.fm® data
  • Make the music listening data available to everybody
    • Research
  • Open source music recommendation systems!
    • MusicBrainz + AcousticBrainz + ListenBrainz
  • But what about…
    • Last.fm data is not open
    • Spotify data is not open
    • Libre.fm is mostly dead
      • And not linked with MBIDs
  • https://listenbrainz.org/
  • Started 2015
    • currently: alpha/beta
  • CC0

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MessyBrainz

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MessyBrainz

  • «MessyBrainz identifies unclean metadata, and where possible, links it to stable MusicBrainz identifiers. MessyBrainz is currently being used for AcousticBrainz and ListenBrainz.»
  • https://messybrainz.org/
  • Started 2015
  • CC0

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BookBrainz

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BookBrainz

  • «BookBrainz is a project to create an online database of information about every single book, magazine, journal and other publication ever written.»
  • https://bookbrainz.org/
  • Launched 2014
    • Still very much in development
  • CC0

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Cover Art Archive

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Cover Art Archive

  • «[The Cover Art Archive’s] goal is to make cover art images available to everyone on the Internet in an organised and convenient way.»
  • With: Internet Archive
  • https://coverartarchive.org/
  • Started 2011
  • Not open data :(
    • Terms are unclear

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CritiqueBrainz

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CritiqueBrainz

  • «CritiqueBrainz is a repository for Creative Commons licensed music reviews. Here you can read what other people have written about an album or event and write your own review!»
  • https://critiquebrainz.org/
  • Started 2014
    • GSoC project
  • CC by-sa(-nc)
  • Open content

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Pick my Brainz

  • Questions
  • Comments
  • Ask away!
  • IRC: Freso in #metabrainz + #musicbrainz @ Freenode IRC
  • E-mail: freso@metabrainz.org