Sep
6
BBC - Taking the Proms to the Semantic Web
Michael Smethurst: I had the good fortune to be handed a dump of a mysql database stuffed to the gills with historical Proms data. It’s got every Prom from 1895 to 2007.
I’ve started to wrap a Ruby on Rails app around it and the results can be seen here. For now it’s pretty basic with lots of gaps left to fill but the intention is to link it to MusicBrainz / DBpedia and publish the results into the Linking Open Data cloud.
In the meantime I thought it might be interesting to develop the site in public so you can see all my mistakes in real time.
