On 11/01/2011 09:45 AM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > Well, that's easy. We just go to the documentation page for Work > (http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Work) and follow the instructions there. > > *Attributes*... *Type*... The type of work. Hmm, I wonder what they mean by > that. It's probably explained elsewhere on the page. > > *Types of works*... Aha! Here we go. > > [snip] > > Seems fairly straightforward. The Type menu on the Work entity is said to > have two choices: Discrete, and Aggregated. So let's look at the actual > menu. > > Oh no! It says.... Aria, Ballet, Cantata, ..., Song. But not Discrete and > not Aggregated. And none of the entries actually in the Type menu are > described in the "Type attribute" section of the documentation! > > Perhaps a good next step would be for someone who remembers the creation of > the Type menu in the Works editor to propose new text for the Work > documentation which describes the Type choices actually in the menu.
Paul's Work Draft [1] is slightly more up-to-date than wiki/Work. I /believe/ the "types" list as it exists now was created more for the purpose of testing than for anything else. As luks has said elsewhere [2], " NGS was meant to mainly improve on the release/recording model, the minimalistic work model was added to experiment with the data and see how to make it useful." Based on discussion in the Work Guidelines Draft 1 thread [3] , I added the idea of a "form" attribute, and re-purposed "type" to describe /only/ the work's place in a Work Tree. Alex / caller#6 [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:PBryan/Work/Draft_1 [2] http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/RFC-Concept-of-works-group-tp3535348p3535462.html [3] http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/Work-Style-Guideline-Draft-1-tp3794061p3799204.html _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
