On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <phi...@foolip.org>wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 06:43, Brian Schweitzer > <brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1) In NGS, a Work is 'filed' under an Artist, just as Releases, Tracks, > > Release Groups are now. > > Since this has nothing to do with spurious works, I'm spinning off a new > thread. > > In the last NGS beta works were not implemented, so I assume it's not > a done deal how they are going to be handled. If we have the > opportunity to design it as we want, I would suggest: > > Let works not be filed under an artist, but rather be associated only > by their ARs. Otherwise we will be wasting time trying to figure out > which artist to file it under and there's a risk that the composer ARs > is seen as "redundant" and not added, making the data less precise and > reliable. > > I initially thought that perhaps it's because we're using a relational > database and the indirection would be too slow (a join), but since we > are able to generate pages like > http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/appears-on.html?artistid=35536 I > don't think that's the case. The other issue is UI, but I refer to the > URL of the previous sentence to show that it's not a problem. > > Thoughts? > > Apart from some UI differences, I don't really follow why there'd be much difference, whether a work is assigned directly to an artist, or assigned via AR, if we're to use composer as the artist for a work. Perhaps some part of the difficulty really would need "artist credits" to be brought up: Given: Work: W Composer 1: A1 Composer 1: A2 What difference do you see between having: AR version: W was composed by A1 and A2 A1 lists W in an 'appears on'-like listing A2 lists W in an 'appears on'-like listing Current NGS version: W lists under the Artist Credit "A1 & A2" "A1 & A2" is an artist credit linking artist "A1" and artist "A2" A1 lists W in its works listing A2 lists W in its works listing The only difference I can see would be in the attributes, something like: W was also additionally composed by A3 A3 is not a part of "A1 & A2", so A3 does *not* list W in its work list A3 *does* however list W in its ARs; they're not implemented atm, but I'd assume such work ARs would also list on the 'appears on'-like page Brian
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