I only know about these "Cultural Identifiers" from what little I got from discussing with Robert in chat about it. I can't say for sure what the finished NGS product will be so that we can accurately discuss them now. (I'll try to hound Robert to make a post in here)
But from what I understand the "Cultural Identifier" will be like an MBID tag that is applied to all releases in a group. I don't even know if the CI tag will have an "original/regular release" or if it will just see the group as a family of equals. I think it will lean more towards the family cluster so in that case I don' think it matters if they point to an earliest release or not, so long as they are all in the same unique group. Personally I would probably still link the releases to the earliest version, most common version out of habit but I think it's more important that the links exist rather than where they point. Again this is partially my own speculation; this is why I'd like Robert or one of the other main programmers who will be working on this to come in and define for us what the end result should look like so we can best setup the data for them. Plus right now I'm under the impression that this AR won't carry over after all of its data is imported as Cultural Identifiers and a new edit or editing system may replace it. So if it ends up full of AR clusters it doesn't matter, so long as each cluster is unique and independant from other clusters in this AR. However there is a possibility of the AR carrying over so if specifying an "original release" is needed we could specify that it's best practice and treat it like all other ARs. And good question about the earliest/remasters ARs. Robert said we can't use existing ARs for this, but many or most of them duplicate what we're doing and provide a good headstart on the data. Although jongetje pointed out that not all will carry over since some link box sets. Even if it's not automated a list of possible groupings would help make things go even quicker. -Dustin Kerensky97 Aaron Cooper-3 wrote: > > "Release Groups" sounds good. > > One question I run into now with the "earliest release of" AR is which > release would we create the relationship from? I assume we'll > probably decide to link to the "earliest" since that is easiest to > determine in most cases. What about linking the bonus track/special/ > limited/enhanced versions to the "regular" version? Would it be too > hard to identify the "regular" version? > > Another question: Can someone write a report that will show all > releases with a remaster/earliest release AR and no release group AR > so we can save a bit of digging? > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RFC%3A--Creating-a-non-code-AR-to-group-releases-into-%E2%80%9Ccultural-identifiers%E2%80%9D-for-future-importing.-tp19807502s2885p19926871.html Sent from the Musicbrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
