February 2010 ready for Web 3 0

Hyperion Records & musicDNA
Leading independent classical label opens its data to musicDNA
http://www.musicdna.info/press/musicDNApressrelease20100201Hyperion.pdf

SEMANTICALLY STICKY
Hyperion Records is the first classical label to open up its data to musicDNA. The Hyperion catalogue is a very valuable source of information about music – thousands and thousands of musicians, pieces of music, and recordings. musicDNA is about sharing expert musical knowledge, about joining up musical data so that people and computers are both speaking the same language. That means, instead of googling for ambiguous phrases, and navigating around flat wiki-pages, we'll be able to have a meaningful conversation. You, me, and the rest of the internet. Hyperion recognizes the true value potential in making their data "semantically sticky" so that we'll all be able to talk about it – when the full musicDNA service is launched later this year.

Director of Hyperion, Simon Perry, said: "The classical community finally has a real music information source that operates outside the pop-driven data parameters imposed by almost all other online systems."

musicDNA's John Drinkwater said: "Hyperion's data is authoritative, detailed, and ideal as a foundation for our shared knowledge of music in the classical sphere."

Hyperion's pioneering music-download site is at: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk

READ MY PSI
musicDNA is made up of an index of musical subjects each with a published subject identifier (PSI) – composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners – and an ontology or map of the relationships between them. It means that when you talk about George Gershwin on your blog or listen to George Gershwin on your iPad, you'll be able to let musicDNA know you're talking about the same George Gershwin as in Hyperion's wide-ranging catalogue – and you'll be able to join up details of your music-making directly with that of your influences and musical heroes.

If you're a musician, that means you'll be giving people lots of new access points to your music.
If you're a music-lover, you'll be discovering more about what you already like as well as music that's new to you.
If you're an organization like Hyperion, you’ll be establishing a keystone position in the evolving digital eco-system.
That's what Web 3.0 is all about. And musicDNA is ready for it. Are you?

Sign up now – and get your friends and fans on board at: www.musicdna.info/signup.aspx
(our pre-launch seed community currently numbers almost 500, and growing daily...)

musicDNA ready for Web 3.0
http://www.musicdna.info/press/musicDNApressrelease20100125.pdf

WHO DID WHAT WHERE WHEN?
Web 3.0 is about computers talking our language – about knowing what we're talking about, and what we're trying to say. musicDNA is ready for this online paradigm shift because its index of musical subjects – e.g. composers, works, bands, albums, gigs, listeners – uses persistent subject identifiers, and because it captures the relationships between those subjects within an ontology – a conceptual reference model – that is flexible, robust, and most significantly, maps to the way we think.

A FRAMEWORK FOR OUR SHARED MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE
musicDNA is the name for both an ontology and a number of user interface concepts which together provide a dynamic navigation architecture for the mapping of the musical universe. musicDNA captures the essential structure of musical events and resources in terms of human activity, thereby enabling visualization of and navigation through this powerfully rich semantic space for use in many kinds of commercial, educational, and community-based environments. musicDNA opens up a new way of creating social objects from music, musicians, and music-making, mapping the journey of a piece of music across four stages from inspiration via notation and interpretation to appreciation, and enabling the tracking of musical influences across time.

musicDNA is provided by joint partners Pensive SA and CTU, and is implemented using the Topic Maps data model; musicDNA is collaborating closely with MusBook (http://www.musbook.com). The musicDNA project and ontology have been presented repeatedly in the international research community since 2008, and have a long history dating back via the RAMline prototype at the Royal Academy of Music to a seminal BBC programme at the turn of the Millennium; the current commercial phase was publicly announced by Pensive in early 2009. musicDNA LTD is a UK-registered company (No. 07166041) and will shortly be looking for investment on a number of levels, D.v....

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Thank you for sustained listening,

February 2010: ready for Web 3.0?