Category: Arts and Culture (17 datasets)

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different …

Coappearance network of characters in the novel Les Miserables. Please cite D. E. Knuth, The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (1993).

A network of books about US politics published around the time of the 2004 presidential election and sold by the online bookseller Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished, but can found on …

This is a set of artist tag data collected from Last.fm using the Audioscrobbler webservice during the spring of 2007. The data consists of the raw tag counts for the 100 most frequently occuring tags that Last.fm listeners have applied to over 20,000 artists. An undo …

Application Programming Interface is available to anyone who wishes to use our database for their own music project, website or program. If you currently use the web to search out lyrics or use code tricks to access other lyrics websites to display relevant lyrics text for your content you can now …

Audioscrobbler, which is now merged with last.fm, once published a database of what music people listened to with the audioscrobbler plugin. Last.fm no longer publishes it, however the initial releases were in the public domain so I can offer it for download.

Here’s the file:

• http://www.i …

1. About

From website:

> Welcome to Discogs, a community-built database of music information. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced. It’s getting closer every day.

1. Openness/re-use

All material is [in the public domain](http://www.discogs.com/da …

1. About

> IMDBP strives to categorize every single piece of music ever written in a format that is: 1. Flexible, extensible; 2. Thorough, uncompromising detail; 3. Efficient and intuitive to use for the average user, including the elimination of duplicate information entry and other potential in …

1. About

> Welcome to the International Music Score Library Project! IMSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. You can read the full list of goals t …

1. About

From [about](http://www.pool.org.au/about) page:

> Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It’s a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers – upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It’s a c …

From [http://www.openmusicarchive.org](http://www.openmusicarchive.org):

> Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive is open for anyone to use and contribute to.

Description

The MusicBrainz database stores all the data of the MusicBrainz music metadata catalogue. This data includes all the data about Artists, Releases, Tracks, AdvancedRelationships between them, but also the MusicBrainz users (editors) and the changes they entered into the database …

“There are so many great songs in the public domain arena. We are ripping and specially mastering MP3 files as fast as we can. We hope you enjoy our selections.”

Growing collection of early American Music, mostly selected from the Internet Archive and assumed to be in the public domain.

For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they’ve created a spreadsheet of 37,000 songs and 112 columns …

The Billboard API puts the entire rich history of our weekly charts at your fingertips to sample and mix into your web pages and applications. This documentation provides an overview of the Billboard API architecture and offers the fine details on each of its services and corresponding resources. …

Strange (chaotic) attractors from iteration of the quadratic map.