Ever notice that before you can really do a good web search, you have to actually know something about your search topic? Let's say you want to learn more about jazz. But you don't know any of the "keywords," the musicians, the composers, the talent. S
The 12 winners in Microsoft Live Labs “Accelerating Search in Academic Research” are part of a quest to identify bold and innovative approaches to information retrieval, data mining, machine learning and human/computer interactions. Here they (and the
MusicBrainz is a user-maintained community music metadatabase...artist names, release titles, tracklist...Its web site is the interface which allows the creation and maintenance of the data, all user-contributed and user-maintained. This means that if you