The 12 winners in Microsoft Live Labs “Accelerating Search in Academic Research” are part of a quest to identify bold and innovative approaches to information retrieval, data mining, machine learning and human/computer interactions. Here they (and the
MusicBrainz is a user-maintained community music metadatabase...artist names, release titles, tracklist...Its web site is the interface which allows the creation and maintenance of the data, all user-contributed and user-maintained. This means that if you