That makes sense. Thank you for your reply!
On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 7:47:51 AM UTC-5, Michael Hunger wrote:
>
> Just quickly.
>
> You can either use labels like :Band, :Artist
>
> And if you know that you have a band you can still create MEMBER_OF
> relationships between the individual and the bands.
>
> There are some other projects in this area, like the musicbrainz -> neo4j
> or lastfm import
>
> Or startups like musimap or mediahound that manage the worlds music and
> media in Neo4j
>
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Henry
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> First of all I want to thank everyone on the Neo4j team for all their
>> hard work on such a promising and exciting new technology.
>>
>>
>> I'm working on a bit of a pet project at the moment; I'm hoping to take
>> the data dumps from Discogs (a record collection site) and load it into
>> Neo4j. My primary goal with this data is to expose the data between
>> *releases* and *artists* (main artists as well as extra artists in terms
>> of credits).
>>
>> The challenge with the Discogs data is that there is no differentiation
>> between "individual" *artists* and "group" *artists *(bands, etc)*. *They
>> are all contained within the *artists* collection. I'm more interested
>> in exposing the relationships of *individuals*, using *groups* as
>> ancillary metadata if applicable, and so therefore need to differentiate
>> groups somehow in the graph. Fortunately, many of the *artists* that are
>> in fact *groups *contain *members* that link back to individual
>> *artists.*
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea how he or she could model this data, since in
>> effect I'll need to "break apart" one single field to two separate node
>> types in the graph? I've attached a quick SVG I created in the arrow tool
>> to help visualize. Maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way?
>>
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