Similarity Ontology

The Similarity Ontology
The MuSim ontology aims to describe the associations between musical items and is motivated by a variety of use cases. Generally we would imagine these items to be music artists (a mo:MusicArtist) or music tracks (a mo:Track) although there are definitely other possibilities. With MuSim, we envision the creation of a distributed music information system that uses data about associations between musical items to allow for recommendation and discovery in a wide variety of contexts. Sometimes MuSim RDF would be stored directly in triple stores, sometimes it would be generated on demand (eg using some similarity system based on vector space).

While the Music Ontology deals primarily with objective attributes of music-related items such as authorship, composition, performance, etc., MuSim aims to capture more subjective attributes. This means that the provenance of an association concept is important as well as the context.