Re: [mb-style] IMDB and derivative releases
Hello Frederic, On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:10:38PM +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: The question is: a) allow IMDb links only for soundtracks b) allow IMDb links also for other official albums that are clearly connected to the IMDb entry (e.g. contains songs from the movie/series) I guess b) is better because the film is more or less the equivalent to our Work or at least to something which we would put in that table, but since we obviously don't put films in the Work table, the IMDb AR serves a similar purpose to a Work-Work AR. If we choose a), we loose the information that this release is related to this film. Thinking further: ... but the IMDb AR is not quite suited for this purpose. So we'd need to either enhance the AR to say that the release is the soundtrack or only a derived release, or create a new AR for this purpose. Yes, the text of the AR (has an IMDb page at) is misleading, since the links usually lead to movies, and there are separate pages for the soundtrack. The explanation says: Relates a soundtrack album to the Internet Movie Database page for the movie, show or game of which it is a soundtrack. So I agree, it would be nice to have something like the Samples From AR [1] for release groups (e.g. Songs From). What do you think? [1] http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Samples_From_Relationship_Type Johannes pgp4x6A9nkMG9.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
Re: [mb-style] IMDB and derivative releases
2011/6/15, Johannes Weißl jar...@molb.org: Hello Frederic, On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:10:38PM +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: The question is: a) allow IMDb links only for soundtracks b) allow IMDb links also for other official albums that are clearly connected to the IMDb entry (e.g. contains songs from the movie/series) I guess b) is better because the film is more or less the equivalent to our Work or at least to something which we would put in that table, but since we obviously don't put films in the Work table, the IMDb AR serves a similar purpose to a Work-Work AR. If we choose a), we loose the information that this release is related to this film. Thinking further: ... but the IMDb AR is not quite suited for this purpose. So we'd need to either enhance the AR to say that the release is the soundtrack or only a derived release, or create a new AR for this purpose. Yes, the text of the AR (has an IMDb page at) is misleading, since the links usually lead to movies, and there are separate pages for the soundtrack. The explanation says: Relates a soundtrack album to the Internet Movie Database page for the movie, show or game of which it is a soundtrack. So I agree, it would be nice to have something like the Samples From AR [1] for release groups (e.g. Songs From). What do you think? Either that or change the AR by adding a original soundtrack check box (what about non-original soundtracks BTW?) and change the link formulation accordingly, something like: is the original soundtrack of the film at and is related to the film at But this makes me wonder if this modification would not allow useless ARs to be entered :-/ We'd at least have to set up strict limits on what is related to would be allowed to mean. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
[mb-style] IMDB and derivative releases
Nothing in the IMDB guideline specifies what to do with stuff like this: http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14579702 Should these (official) derivative works be linked, or should we keep it only for official soundtracks and the like? Whatever the case, an update to the page might be in order. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/IMDb_Relationship_Type -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
