🎼 Trackloaded Artist Dataset – RDF & SPARQL Access

The Trackloaded Artist Dataset offers structured, machine-readable metadata about Nigerian music artists featured on Trackloaded. It includes information such as artist names, homepage URLs, genres, biographies, birth dates, and identity links.

🔗 Access Points

• SPARQL Endpoint: /sparql-endpoint.php
• SPARQL Browser (UI): /sparql-browser
• VoID Metadata (Turtle): /?void=1
• RDF Sitemap (Turtle): /?build_rdf_sitemap

📄 Per-Artist Linked Data

Each artist profile page supports RDF export via query parameters:

• ?rdf=ttl or ?format=ttl – Turtle
• ?rdf=rdf or ?format=rdf – RDF/XML
• ?rdf=xml or ?format=xml – RDF/XML

Example URLs:

• /tag/olamide/?rdf=ttl
• /tag/olamide/?format=ttl
• /tag/olamide/?rdf=rdf
• /tag/olamide/?format=rdf

📦 Embedded JSON-LD

Each artist tag page includes embedded application/ld+json markup using Schema.org's Person vocabulary, with fields like:

• name, url, description, genre, sameAs

Sample SPARQL Query

SELECT ?name ?url ?bio
WHERE {
  ?x foaf:name ?name ;
     foaf:homepage ?url .
  OPTIONAL { ?x foaf:bio ?bio }
}

📚 Vocabularies Used

• foaf:name, foaf:homepage, foaf:bio
• schema:birthDate, schema:alternateName
• mo:genre (Music Ontology)
• owl:sameAs (External identity links)

📜 License

This dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0).