Online concert info

For some time I have been working on a system for searching, browsing and adding concert information. Using this system is not very efficient, because every concert has to be added to the database, the biggest part of the problem is de searching, and typing of the items.

Because I'm not very happy with this I have been thinking about a system that uses the internet. For this to work, concert organizers and artists could put a file on their webserver. This file will contain inforamtion about concert in some format. Every week or month, a bot will download that file and integrate it into the database.

The nice thing about this approach is that the files can be automatically generated from the concert information on the websites of the places and artists using their concert information system or content management system.

Also being human, not everyone will write the name of an artist the some way. There could be problems, when there are artists with the same name or if artists use 'The' in front their name, but not everywhere, or maybe not by everyone.

This last problem could of course be solved by using the url of the band's homepage in the file, because that is unique.

By creating something like this, we are already a step closer to the semantic web.