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Michael Smethurst Michael Smethurst | 12:28 UK time, Friday, 5 September 2008

henry_wood_proms.jpgA few weeks back, 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 (and (you'd hope) 2008 at some point).

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 to publish the results into the Linking Open Data cloud.

Read more and comment at the BBC Radio Labs blog.

Michael Smethurst is Information Architect, FM&T for BBC Audio & Music Interactive.

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