Music domain ontology applications for intelligent web searching

Abstract

The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web that at- tempts to reach a state in the future where everything on the Web will no longer be only machine-readable, but also machine-understandable. Three important technologies for developing the Semantic Web are al- ready in place: Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and Web Ontology Language (OWL). An ontology language is a formal language used to encode ontologies. An ontology is an explicit speci¯cation of a conceptualization. Many disciplines now develop standardized ontologies that domain experts can use to share and annotate information in their ¯elds, and which can be used for reasoning about the objects within a particular do- main. It includes machine-interpretable de¯nitions of basic concepts in the domain and relations among them. In this work, we develop an ontology of Argentinean music. Despite being highly speci¯c, we illus- trate how such an ontology can be expanded and used in applications that carry out complex music related searches. These applications can be embedded later on in electronic devices with some form of wireless networking capability, such as mobile phones, enriching their current functionality.