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Bitpedia Data Dumps

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Latest Dumps

Coming soon: BitTorrent and CD based dumps of current catalog.

Old Dumps

Featuring basic "best data" on 330,026 discrete files, 270MB uncompressed [Bitprint Detail], November 19, 2001.

openbits-20011119-sample.rdf, 1.5KB, single record example [Bitprint Detail]
openbits-20011119-experimental.rdf.bz2, 46.5MB, bzip2 compression [Bitprint Detail]
openbits-20011119-experimental.rdf.gz, 48.7MB, gzip compression [Bitprint Detail]

Comments and feature/format requests wanted! Please visit the Bitzi Developer Discussion forum.

Field Name Notes

You'll encounter the following non-Dublin Core fields: 
bz:length File size
bz:first20 First 20 bytes of file
bz:subjective Subjective comment
bz:albumName Album name
mm:trackNum Album track number
mm:duration Track duration (ms)
bz:bitrate (kilobits/second)
bz:samplerate Hz
bz:stereo y|n
bz:encoder Audio encoder
bz:audio_sha1 sha1 of audio data
bz:width Image width
bz:height Image height
bz:bpp Impage bits/pixel
bz:samplesize .wav specific
bz:channels Channels in a .ogg (stereo=2)
bz:broadcaster Original broadcaster
bz:series Series name
bz:medium Broadcast medium
mm:trmId Relatable audio fingerprint
bz:society "BitSociety" interest group
bz:md5 MD5 full file hash
rdfs:seeAlso Related URLs
We also used description, title, creator and date from Dublin Core.

Obviously you won't find all of the above in a single record.

See also the provisional Bitzi Ticket RELAX-NG Schema. The schema is not yet a complete representation of current ticket fields.

Changes

The following format changes have been made from the September 17, 2001 dump:
  • Added RDF Schema namespace
  • bitprint: changed to urn:bitprint:
  • Added Bitzi lookup URL as a rdf:resource attribute of rdfs:seeAlso
  • Moved bz:url to rdfs:seeAlso with value stored in rdf:resource attribute
  • bz:album changed to bz:albumName
  • Moved value of bz:url to rdf:resource attribute of same element.

Credits

Thanks to Aaron Swartz and others on the www-rdf-interest mailing list for helpful comments concerning the previous dump. All blame for faults of the current dump lies with the packager.

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