Crafting Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage: Mapping and Curation Tools for the Linked Jazz Project by M. Cristina Pattuelli, Matt Miller, Leanora Lange, Sean Fitzell, and Carolyn Li-Madeo.
Abstract:
This paper describes tools and methods developed as part of Linked Jazz, a project that uses Linked Open Data (LOD) to reveal personal and professional relationships among jazz musicians based on interviews from jazz archives. The overarching aim of Linked Jazz is to explore the possibilities offered by LOD to enhance the visibility of cultural heritage materials and enrich the semantics that describe them. While the full Linked Jazz dataset is still under development, this paper presents two applications that have laid the foundation for the creation of this dataset: the Mapping and Curator Tool, and the Transcript Analyzer. These applications have served primarily for data preparation, analysis, and curation and are representative of the types of tools and methods needed to craft linked data from digital content available on the web. This paper discusses these two domain-agnostic tools developed to create LOD from digital textual documents and offers insight into the process behind the creation of LOD in general.
The Linked Data Jazz Name Directory:
consists of 8,725 unique names of jazz musicians as N-Triples.
It’s a starting place if you want to create a topic map about Jazz.
Although, do be aware the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University reports:
Although national estimates of the number of jazz musicians are unavailable, the Study of Jazz Artists 2001 estimated the number of jazz musicians in three metropolitan jazz hubs — New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans — at 33,003, 18,733, and 1,723, respectively. [A total of 53,459. How Many Jazz Musicians Are There?]
And that is only for one point in time. It does not include jazz musicians who perished before the estimate was made.
Much work remains to be done.