🎼 Trackloaded Artist Dataset – RDF & SPARQL Access

Name: Trackloaded Artist Dataset
Creator: Trackloaded
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This dataset provides structured linked data about Nigerian music artists featured on Trackloaded. It includes metadata such as artist name, homepage, genre, biography, social links, and birth date. The dataset is publicly available via machine-readable formats and a SPARQL query endpoint.

🔗 Access Points

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

📄 Per-Artist Linked Data

Each artist profile page supports RDF output via query parameters:

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

Example: /tag/asake/?rdf=ttl

📦 JSON-LD Metadata

Artist profile pages also embed application/ld+json using Schema.org’s Person type, with fields including name, url, description, sameAs, and genre.

Sample SPARQL Query

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

📚 Vocabulary

foaf:name, foaf:homepage, foaf:bio
schema:birthDate, schema:alternateName
mo:genre (Music Ontology)
owl:sameAs (for social and identity links)

📜 Licensing

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