"pandas is a python package providing convenient data structures for time series, cross-sectional, or any other form of “labeled” data, with tools for building statistical and econometric models."

handle data in python intuitively. pass to R for fiddly bits.

pytagsfs is a FUSE filesystem that arranges media files in a virtual directory structure based on the file tags. For instance, a set of audio files could be mapped to a new directory structure organizing them hierarchically by album, genre, release date, etc. File tags can be changed by moving and renaming virtual files and directories. The virtual files can also be modified directly, and, of course, can be opened and played just like regular files.

Mutagen is a Python module to handle audio metadata. It supports ASF, FLAC, M4A, Monkey's Audio, MP3, Musepack, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Speex, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis, True Audio, WavPack and OptimFROG audio files. All versions of ID3v2 are supported, and all standard ID3v2.4 frames are parsed. It can read Xing headers to accurately calculate the bitrate and length of MP3s. ID3 and APEv2 tags can be edited regardless of audio format. It can also manipulate Ogg streams on an individual packet/page level

Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.

The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. (It also downloads cover art for albums it imports.) ...If beets doesn't do what you want yet, writing your own plugin is shockingly simple if you know a little Python.

gui for handing organising that goddman higgle heap of files you get whendragging out of iTunes.

Fluidinfo is often described as “Wikipedia for data”. More precisely, it is a single-instance online storage solution that makes it possible for people, businesses, and their applications to create, search on, organize, and share metadata about anything. Fluidinfo provides instant online APIs to those who use it for storage.

perform arbitrary renames on your mps3s, wipe out itunes tracking data, look up missing info online...

a new entrant into the cheap but not especially inspiring cheap mac audio editor market. maybe this is better? certainly cheaper than audiofile's insipid offerings, and handles arbitrary file format metadata

Facebook's blessed page metadata annotation.Might actually get up thanks to their clout, and the reasonably immediate benefits that using it provide. Buuuut - it requires you to be logged in to facebook, is "inspired by Dublin Core, link-rel canonical, Microformats, and RDFa" without the precision of those -- a webpage about a movie //is-a// movie; the vocabulary for what your page can be about is tiny and squarely aimed at, basically, teens. e.g. the laughable vocabulary for groups "cause, sports_league, sports_team." Still, of the many types of XML page cruft you could be embedding in your page this one might be commercially sensible to implement.

"osxutils is a bundle of powerful Mac-oriented command line utilities for viewing, editing and manipulating file meta-data. The package contains 'lsmac', a popular alternative to the BSD list command, in addition to many other useful tools. For more information, see the osxutils project page or, alternately, view the documentation. "

file and metadata management for musicheads

automated sceintific provenance

should you have come into possession of any large caches of audiobooks lately, this could be handy.

if you did wish to make a perfunctory attempt to lightly anonymise your itunes music in bulk, this perl library might be the best bet.

there's 360k of bonus identifying somethingorother encoded in that m4a. don't be sharing it about.

I've banished from my vocabulary in dealing with users the question: "what did you expect to happen?" (intoned inquisitively with stress on the word happen, not sarcastically with stress on the last syllable of expect). Because what the user hears when you ask that question is, "you disagree with the computer. The computer's right, you're wrong...

At this point, he stopped, thought about it, laughed, and agreed that the TiVo hadn't done anything wrong, and that he needed to start using the "save" feature. See, non-techies do sort of get that there's information that technology can grasp, and other information out of its scope. They just don't do it as automatically as we do...

"The cb2Bib is a free, open source, and multiplatform application for rapidly extracting unformatted, or unstandardized bibliographic references from email alerts, journal Web pages, and PDF files.
The cb2Bib facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and non standard sources. Output references are written in BibTeX. Article files can be easily linked and renamed by dragging them onto the cb2Bib window. Additionally, it permits editing and browsing BibTeX files, citing references, searching references and the full contents of the referenced documents, inserting bibliographic metadata to documents, and writing short notes that interrelate several references."

making the sounds be pretty, but you can justify that because it's _informative_ yeah

media handling and conversion for python

experiments with provenance of experimental scientific data

Some kind of federated data sharing system. "Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data; facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and students; and ensures long-term preservation whether or not the data are in the public domain."

how to categorise the world

sounds like a pythonic intranet version of YQL/pipes - a local metadata mashup engine?

"A SnapLogic feed is a serialized record-oriented data stream with a simplified structure that eliminates the complexity of application-specific data schemas. ...

SnapLogic addresses this problem with a metadata repository that stores Pipelines as well as every Resource they contain. Pipelines and Resources are easily reused. As requirements grow over time, the investment in developing SnapLogic Pipelines can be leveraged across all integrations."

quasi-structured metadata search across scientific publications databases.

The Knight News Challenge’s biggest winner, with a two-year grant of $719,500, is DocumentCloud, the primary-source index conceived by journalists and developers at ProPublica and The New York Times. Here’s why you should care: There’s good reason to believe the project will transform how some investigative journalism is conducted — and who conducts it.

Like a lot of software in the cloud, this one is complicated to explain. I wrote a long overview of DocumentCloud in November, and you can read their initial grant application in my first post about the project. Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news technologies at the Times and one of the project’s creators, told me on Monday, “DocumentCloud isn’t really conducive to a two-minute elevator pitch.” But later in our conversation, he ventured one: “It will turn documents into data.”

Science NSW should get in to THIS.

very interesting metadata hybrid standard: collaborative tagging to rdf-ish entity annotation, with shared vocabulary and services across the entire internetverse.

massive music collection turned your dj sets into confusion? this little app attempts to calculate the bpm and key of your library, and stash both in the file metadata.

integrated openmeta file tagging for OSX

nice minimalist intro to how to do faceted classification.

awesome - API access to file tagging from your objc apps., and get spotlight indexing.

public data/research metadata support for nsw researchers.

binary stream munging for python, including structured file parsing. makes stuff like id3 parsing easyish, apparently.

another approach to python id3/flac tag management, with a more obscure and pretty name

manage your music metadata with python

strucutre blog posts as reviews/link/lists or whatever in a vaguely RDFish way (well, it seems that it can roundtrip RDF but actually extends RSS/Atom)

python-ruby-friendly licence metadata reader for your media-tagging needs. thinks: whjy not integrate this into mac os spotlight?

a film databases that scrapes public information and p2p filesharing networks for metadata. extracting a legal (?) public resource from illegal ones

the new and exciting attributes you can shove in your webpages to make your content machine comprehensible. assists with automated spam harvesting, government surveillance, and search results. all the good stuff, count me in.

Creativecommons' recommended metadata format - allows embedding of RDFa metadata info into any file - so tracking authorship, attribution and so on as well as media formats.

XML as a superset of MIDI

read embedded image EXIF metadata from the comfort of your browser

"This WordPress 2.0 plugin generates academic citations in five common academic citation formats: AMA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA."

COinS is finally out

the other end of the opencalais madness - treating wikipedia as a collaborative text categorisation dataset

flickr's take on rdf-lite

MozCC is an extension for Mozilla-based applications, including Mozilla Firefox and Songbird, which provides a convenient way to examine metadata -- including Creative Commons licenses -- embedded in web pages. (salve that metadata-transcribing pain)

kinda like a consensual version of deliverance. Embed remote sites content in your own without elaborate scraping or what-have-you.

close still to storing metadata in instances... apparently is messes up garbage collection though

simplifed vocabulary and spec for pages which are about real world entities. museum collections, say

nitty gritty weather schema

another take on getting the weather into xml

one take on getting the weather into xml

the vocabulary for vocabularies. Well, classificationa dn tagging at least

one fothe widest use vocabularies on the interwebs. not much good for historical people is all.

rest-ish embeddable take on oai. Although.... Where's the code?

the entire wikipedia as RDF triples (suspiciously few of them if you ask me....)

The flickr wrappr extends DBpedia with RDF links to photos posted on flickr. For each of the 1.95 million DBpedia concepts, the wrappr generates a collection of flickr photos that depict the concept

This is an intersting one - allows zope based CMSs(plone, silva) to become OAI-repositories for rich metadata about media

MMPython is a Media Meta Data retrieval framework. It retrieves metadata from mp3, ogg, avi, jpg, tiff and other file formats. Among others it thereby parses ID3v2, ID3v1, EXIF, IPTC and Vorbis data into an object oriented struture.

awesome library for highlighting and commenting on webpages. pluggable.

annotating arbitrary web pages with metadata and notes and such, tied into a RESTful API

type-agnotic tag munging

a very old doc about how to do it.

the definitive embedded dublin core in XHTML

a better way to convert tags to RDF markup. using a webserivce and AJAX, bascially.

dublin core can be wrapped in rdf if we need it

Sindice indexes the Semantic Web and can tell you which sources mention a resource URI, IFP, or keyword. quweery on RDF referents.

dublin core for events/times/places and all that.

a big compsoiting and GIS app with client and server versions endorsed by OSDM

surf the intersemantpweb of yer local library.

browser-side reading of everything.

yahoo differentiates its product from google with insane semantic web frenzy explosion.

firefox's way of accessing COinS

neath. python tag wrangling

well, one has to know this stuff.

the standard to tie together related links of content. think about annotating even the lamest of noncompliant sites with metadata, and gathering your resources into semntic clumps freestylee