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Concerto A Mash-Up Symphony

Concerto is an innovative online platform designed for music enthusiasts to discover, evaluate, and select music events. By integrating data sources such as Google Maps, YouTube, and Last FM, it offers a rich user experience to engage with extensive artist information, including biographies, album listings, and sample music. The Artist Similarity System utilizes user listening preferences to recommend similar artists and identify upcoming events of interest. Concerto aims to fill the gap left by existing music event calendars with a focused and user-friendly approach.

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Concerto A Mash-Up Symphony

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  1. ConcertoA Mash-Up Symphony Fan, Ilk, Zimbra May 5, 2008

  2. Outline • Introduction and Business Objectives • Competitive Landscape • System Architecture • Data Sources • Artist Similarity System • Member Contributions • Conclusion

  3. Introduction and Business Objectives • Business Objectives • Music Event Calendar • Venue Mapping • Extensive Artist Information • Artist Biography • Album Listing • Sample Music • Video Clips • Artist Images • Artist Similarity System

  4. Competitive Landscape • Three Major Forms of Competition • Local Music Events Calendars • Often supplement traditional media; published by newspapers or television • Limited content and simple presentation • Calendar.tucsoncitizen.com • Nationwide Online Music Event Portals • Comprehensive: also lists restaurant, movie, nightlife listings and reviews • Broad focus dilutes quality of music event information • Citysearch.com • Ticket sales: focus on major events, well-known artists • Tickemaster.com • Local Online Portals • Community driven and oriented • Opportunity: no online music event destination offers a rich user experience to search for, evaluate, and select a music event to attend.

  5. System Architecture

  6. Data Sources • Upcoming – Spider • Music Event and Venue Information • Google Maps – API • Venue Maps • You Tube – API • Artist Videos • Google Images – API • Artist Images • Amazon – API • Artist Album Listing • Last.FM – Spider/API • Artist Biography • Sample Music • User ‘Favorite Bands’ • Pandora – Spider • Artist Biography

  7. Artist Similarity System • Mining Last.FM User Listening Preferences • Determine Similar Artists • Identify Upcoming Events of Potential Interest • Modified Bayesian Approach

  8. Member Contributions • Fan • APIs: Google Maps, Google Images, You Tube, Amazon; JSP Creation and Integration • Ilk • Website Implementation; Database Administration; Pandora and Last.FM Spidering; PHP Creation • Zimbra • Business Model; Upcoming Spidering; Last.FM Spidering/API; Artist Recommender System

  9. Conclusion • Concerto – A mash-up symphony • An online music event destination that offers a rich user experience to search for, evaluate, and select a music event to attend. • Integration of 7 data sources – spidering and API • Artist Similarity System – identifies similar artists based upon user listening preferences, to identify upcoming events of potential interest

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