Description

FlaBase (Flamenco Knowledge Base) is the acronym of a new knowledge base of flamenco music. Its ultimate aim is to gather all available online editorial, biographical and musicological information related to flamenco music. A first version is just being released. Its content is the result of the curation and extraction processes. FlaBase is stored in JSON format, and it is freely available for download. This first release of FlaBase contains information about 1,102 artists, 74 palos (flamenco genres), 2,860 albums, 13,311 tracks, and 771 Andalusian locations.

Data sources

Data was compiled and curated from different sources: Wikipedia, DBpedia, Andalucia.org, elartedevivirelflamenco.com, MusicBrainz, flun.cica.es/index.php/grabaciones/base-datos-grabaciones and juntadeandalucia.es/institutodeestadisticaycartografia/sima

There are 5 folders. Inside of every folder, each entity is stored in a single JSON file. The folders are:

  • artists: All artists.
    Fields: andaluciaorg_full_name, andaluciaorg_html, andaluciaorg_html_en, andaluciaorg_origin, andaluciaorg_text, andaluciaorg_text_en, andaluciaorg_title, andaluciaorg_type, andaluciaorg_url, andaluciaorg_url_en, dbpedia_filtered_type, dbpedia_types, dbpedia_uri, elartede_text, elartede_title, elartede_url, extracted_birth_year, extracted_death_year, extracted_origin, extracted_origin_id, extracted_province, flabase_artist_id, flabase_type, freebase_uri, mb_type, mbid, title, wikidata_uri, wikipedia_categories, wikipedia_html_en, wikipedia_html_es, wikipedia_text_en, wikipedia_text_es, wikipedia_url
  • albums_db: Albums gathered from CICA discographic database
    Fields: artist, flabase_album_id, flabase_artist_id, formato, songs, title. [Songs Fields]: album, album_id, artist, duration, flabase_artist_id, flabase_guitarist_id, flabase_palo_id, flabase_song_id, guitarrist, palo, style, title
  • albums_mb: Albums gathered from MusicBrainz
    Fields: date, flabase_album_id, flabase_artist_id, mbid_artist, mbid_release, songs, title. [Songs Fields]: mbid_recording, title
  • palos: Flamenco genres
    Fields: andaluciaorg_title, andaluciaorg_url, dbpedia_uri, flabase_palo_id, flabase_type, wikipedia_html, wikipedia_text, wikipedia_title, wikipedia_url
  • places: Andalusian locations
    Fields: flabase_place_id, name, province

For more details on how these files were generated, we refer to the following scientific publication. We would highly appreciate if scientific publications of works partly based on the FlaBase dataset quote the following publication:

Please cite FlaBase in Academic Research

When FlaBase is used for academic research, we would highly appreciate if scientific publications of works partly based on the FlaBase dataset quote the following publication:

Oramas, S., Gómez F., Gómez E., & Mora J. (In Press).  FlaBase: Towards the Creation of a Flamenco Music Knowledge Base. 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. 

Supported by

COFLA: Analisis Computational de la Musica Flamenca, Proyectos de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucia, P09-TIC-4840, Junta de Andalucia (Consejeria de Innovacion, Ciencia y Empresas).

Download the FlaBase dataset here:

Conditions of Use

Dataset compiled and authored by Sergio Oramas. Copyright ©2015 Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. All Rights Reserved.

The FlaBase dataset is offered free of charge for internal non-commercial use only. You may not redistribute, publically communicate or modify it. Please see the license terms in the README file within the dataset for applicable conditions.

Feedback

Problems, positive feedback, negative feedback... it is all welcome! Please help me improve FlaBase by sending your feedback to:
[email protected]

In case of a problem report please include as many details as possible.