chdl-0006
Non-Classical Music Events at CH, by Genre
A pie chart showing the breakdown of non-classical music events at Carnegie Hall, listed by genre
Lab Report
EXPERIMENT LABEL/TITLE
Non-Classical Music Events at CH, by Genre
TL;DR
Create a pie chart to show non-classical music genre labels and percentage counts, relative to the number of Carnegie Hall events that have a genre keyword assigned to them.
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METHODS
We created a SPARQL query to count the number of performances for each genre. We outline the use of genre at Carnegie Hall here, which includes the background to this query:
PREFIX event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#>
PREFIX mo: <http://purl.org/ontology/mo/>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
SELECT ?genreLabel (COUNT (DISTINCT?event) AS ?numberOfEvents)
WHERE {
?event rdf:type event:Event ;
mo:genre ?genre .
?genre rdfs:label ?genreLabel .
}
GROUP BY ?genreLabel
ORDER BY ?genreLabel
CONCLUSIONS
what we learned
While this genre chart serves as a nice visualization, it is an incomplete representation of musical genre at Carnegie Hall. Genre is not recorded on every non-classical music event, and our current set of genre vocabulary is not up-to-date or all-inclusive. We continue to face several genre challenges related to the limits of our database and to the inconsistencies of the overall genre discussion.
further investigation
We’re still wrapping our heads around our own internal discussion of genre and ask for feedback and/or responses to this chart and to any of the talking points in our discussion post. If you have done work similar to this or have also been tossing around musical genre questions in your mind, contact us or tweet using #CHDataLab.