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seevl Attends: MusicTechFest, Google I/O and The Music Technology Showcase

Alexandre Passant — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:05:28 +0000

We Attend MusicTechFest, Google I/O and The Music Technology Showcase These are busy times for us! In addition to the launch of the mobile version of seevl for Deezer, we’re also involved in three exciting events: MusicTechFest, Google I/O and The Music Technology Showcase! This weekend, Pete traveled to MusicTechFest in London to present seevl to a warm [...]

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seevl Social Feed Is Redesigned To Give You More Music

Alexandre Passant — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:24:31 +0000

Rethinking The seevl Social Feed When we launched the seevl Social Feed, we mostly relied on Facebook – and in particular your existing social network – to help you discover new artists. While this was a good way to bootstrap the music discovery process, by selecting artists from your existing friends list and enjoying the new artists [...]

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Using and improving Freebase topics in YouTube API V3: Detecting artists in music videos

Alexandre Passant — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:19:53 +0000

If, like us, you love(d) reading inner sleeves when listening to CD or vinyl’s, you may find digital music too cold. That’s why we’ve started seevl and provide our artist, available besides YouTube music videos. It showcases connected artists and liner notes, so you can read know about who’s playing in the comfort of YouTube. [...]

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Seevl interviews Brian Zisk – Executive Producer of the SF MusicTech Summit

Julie Letierce — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:00:37 +0000

The 12th SF Music Tech Summit will take place on February 19, 2013. Once again we’re thrilled at Seevl to attend this exciting event in addition to participate to SF Music Hack Day. In this interview, Brian Zisk gives his insight about the phenomenal growth of the SF MusicTech Summit along with the music/tech ecosytem. What made you [...]

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seevl goes to Midem Festival in Cannes and takes part in Midem Music Hack Day 2013

Peter O'Shea — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:46:58 +0000

Cannes will be buzzing once again this year as the music industry gathers for Midem 2013. The festival takes place from the 26th – 29th of January and attracts artists, music industry leaders, entrepreneurs and technology innovators. Midem is a place of opportunity where startups can meet industry leaders and forge new partnerships. There are [...]

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Storing and querying RDF data with Redis

Alexandre Passant — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:50:42 +0000

As discussed in the past, seevl is build using a bunch of RDF data. If you’re not familiar with it – RDF is the building block of the W3C‘s vision for a Semantic Web; it’s a simple but powerful model used to describe entities and graphs of data (check this video for an entertaining definition) [...]

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Reaching the Nirvana of contextualisation

Alexandre Passant — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:28:43 +0000

At seevl, our mission is to bring context to music, i.e. delivering biographies, fact-sheets, recommendations and more, each time you listen to a particular artist or band. Obviously, the first step to enable this is to identify who’s playing. Fingerprinting or named entity extraction are two well-known options, but the first one is not necessarily possible when [...]

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About JSON-LD and Content-Negotiation

Alexandre Passant — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:11:51 +0000

I wanted to write about our use of Content-Negotiation for a long time, and as we recently switched to JSON-LD as the unique format to represent our data, I decided to talk about both in this blog post. As you may know (or can guess when checking the team page), we have been involved in efforts [...]

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Updating the data model and access format

Alexandre Passant — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:05:34 +0000

In the few next days, we will deploy some updates to our data model and data access. The model will be more deeply tied with the Music Ontology (using new properties such as mo:Activity), and the data access will use the current JSON-LD specification. We believe that this is currently the best way to combine [...]

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Slides of the “Music and the Semantic Web” session

Alexandre Passant — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:43:00 +0000

Here are the slides of the talk I gave this morning at the Music and the Semantic Web session at the 130 AES, in London. I found the panel very interesting and informative, especially as it showed both the opportunities and challenges (check this post from Greg [1]) for the Semantic Web in terms of [...]

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