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Encyclopedia > MetaBrainz Foundation
MetaBrainz Foundation
Image:MetaBrainz logo.png
Type Non-profit
Founded 2005
Location San Luis Obispo, California
Key people Robert Kaye, Dan Brickley, Cory Doctorow, Joichi Ito, Lawrence Lessig, Rachel 'Zoe' Soffa
Products MusicBrainz
Website MetaBrainz.org/

The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit based in San Luis Obispo, California that operates the MusicBrainz project. Image File history File links MetaBrainz_logo. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... San Luis Obispo, San Luis, or SLO (Spanish for ) is a city in California. ... MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music encyclopedia. ... Cory Doctorow at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of Creative Commons. ... Joi Ito at the Ars Electronica Joichi Ito (伊藤穰一, born 1966), more commonly known as Joi Ito, is a Japanese-born, American-educated activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. ... Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. ... MusicBrainz (MusicBrainz. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... San Luis Obispo, San Luis, or SLO (Spanish for ) is a city in California. ... MusicBrainz (MusicBrainz. ...


MusicBrainz is a user maintained community music metadata database. Music metadata is information such as the name of an artist, the name of an album and list of tracks that appear on an album. MusicBrainz collects this information about music and makes it available to the public. Music is a form of expression in the medium of time using the structures of tones and silence. ... Metadata (Greek meta over and Latin data information, literally data about data), are data that describe other data. ... A database is an organized collection of data. ... Metadata (Greek meta over and Latin data information, literally data about data), are data that describe other data. ... Look up Artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... An album track is a term often used to refer to a song from an album which is not considered to be one of the key tracks on the album. ...


With the creation of the MetaBrainz Foundation, the MusicBrainz project enters its second phase of life. In the first incarnation, the project was privately maintained and focused primarily on basic music metadata described above. Today the MusicBrainz project has the legal backing and infrastructure of the MetaBrainz Foundation, which will allow it to embark on a mission to expand its scope.


MusicBrainz recently released the "Advanced Relationships" feature, which allows volunteers to enter vastly more information about music than previously possible. This new feature allows MusicBrainz to capture essential music information as well as obscure facts about music and the musicians who created it. With these new features, MusicBrainz takes the first step towards creating a user contributed music encyclopedia. Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 1902 An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia, also (rarely) encyclopædia,[1] is a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. ...


On April 19, 2005 the MetaBrainz Foundation and its board of directors were officially unveiled to the public. April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


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The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit based in San Luis Obispo, California that operates the MusicBrainz project.
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On April 19, 2005 the MetaBrainz Foundation and its board of directors were officially unveiled to the public.
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