Re: [mb-style] RFC: Dealing with translations and transliterations

2006-06-14 Thread Nikki
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:17:05PM -0600, Dustin B wrote: > I think we need an AR to bind transliterations and translations of the > same album together currently so we can more easily combine them when we > have full solution for multiple languages. I fully agree, which is why I bugged you to sen

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Amazon Relationship Type

2006-06-14 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2006/6/14, Stefan Kestenholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > displaying the cover art is nice (I wouldn't really say useful ;-) ). Of course it is... -- i for one am a visual type, and it helps tremendously to see a cover art (even more in classical, where the entry in MB often does have not much resembl

Re: [mb-style] Tracking RFCs and RFVs

2006-06-14 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On 6/14/06, Bogdan Butnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Don Redman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We drop the RFC and RFV from the subject line. Instead, somebody who > starts a new RFC (i.e. who raises an issue which they want to get solved), > adds "" to the body of their mail. This lin

Re: [mb-style] Tracking RFCs and RFVs

2006-06-14 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On 6/14/06, Don Redman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We drop the RFC and RFV from the subject line. Instead, somebody who starts a new RFC (i.e. who raises an issue which they want to get solved), adds "" to the body of their mail. This line _must not_ be cited in replies. We do the same for RFVs T

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread dj empirical
On 6/14/06, Simon Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Btw: and interesting case is Dream Theater who released older demos *after* they changed their name from Majesty to Dream Theater and thus the demos contain both band names: there were compilation appearances as "majesty", too. i remember

[mb-style] Tracking RFCs and RFVs

2006-06-14 Thread Don Redman
First, I have to say that I am very impressed with some of the last postings on mb-style. There were some very disciplined, process-aware posts. If we continue this way, the job of the secretary will be a no-brainer. The secretary would only have to jump in in strange or very disputed cases

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Dealing with translations and transliterations

2006-06-14 Thread Don Redman
Wow, the book is forgiven. That was a very precise and detailed summary of the problem and the possible sollutions. I think that the cluster problem can be minimized, if the ARs point to the original album in the artist's original language. This will not remove all clusters but many. Addi

[mb-style] Freetext crediting (Was: RFV: Adding some AR attributes)

2006-06-14 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Chris Bransden wrote: On 14/06/06, Simon Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course since we don't have freetext crediting like Discogs we can only render liner notes to a certain extent and I'd normally say try to find those types which are nearest to what they really did - but since in m

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Chris Bransden wrote: On 14/06/06, derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For cases where an artist only changed it's name we might use a more general "renamed to"/"was previously known as" AR. i'm not so sure such cases would be indexed as seperate artists anyway. see http://lists.musicbrainz.o

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding some AR attributes

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Bransden
On 14/06/06, Simon Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Bransden wrote: > only one i thing is a bit bizzare is "adding > ExecutiveRelationshipAttribute to EngineerRelationshipType" - i'm not > sure what that would mean? Well, similar to the producer type, the phrase would change from "{add

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Aaron Cooper
On 6/14/06, Chris Bransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14/06/06, Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/14/06, Chris Bransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 14/06/06, derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For cases where an artist only changed it's name we might use a more > > >

Re: [mb-style] other commercial relationships (emusic)?

2006-06-14 Thread Stefan Kestenholz
well, AM G and Discogs have links to several other shops, in addition to amazon. therefore it should be possible to add urls which have a certain longevity to them. even the amazon urls can change, if a release is not sold anymore. I'd rather see this feature be implemented such that the other UR

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding some AR attributes

2006-06-14 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Chris Bransden wrote: only one i thing is a bit bizzare is "adding ExecutiveRelationshipAttribute to EngineerRelationshipType" - i'm not sure what that would mean? Well, similar to the producer type, the phrase would change from "{additionally} engineered" to "{additionally} {co-}{executive }e

Re: [mb-style] other commercial relationships (emusic)?

2006-06-14 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On 6/14/06, Dave Smey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie here.. Is there a chance of adding other commecial relationships? I for one would like to see an emusic link. I've been driven into musicbrainism partly because the data at eMu is often very sloppy and incomplete - it would

[mb-style] other commercial relationships (emusic)?

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Smey
Hi all, I'm a newbie here.. Is there a chance of adding other commecial relationships? I for one would like to see an emusic link. I've been driven into musicbrainism partly because the data at eMu is often very sloppy and incomplete - it would be awesome to think that people could eventually us

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Bransden
On 14/06/06, Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Chris Bransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/06/06, derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For cases where an artist only changed it's name we might use a more > > general "renamed to"/"was previously known as" AR. > > i'm not

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Aaron Cooper
On 6/14/06, Chris Bransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14/06/06, derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For cases where an artist only changed it's name we might use a more > general "renamed to"/"was previously known as" AR. i'm not so sure such cases would be indexed as seperate artists anywa

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Amazon Relationship Type

2006-06-14 Thread Stefan Kestenholz
displaying the cover art is nice (I wouldn't really say useful ;-) ). Of course it is... -- i for one am a visual type, and it helps tremendously to see a cover art (even more in classical, where the entry in MB often does have not much resemblance to whats on the cover) ___

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Amazon Relationship Type

2006-06-14 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
I wasn't clear enough. I was not meaning the cover art shouldn't be a link, just that we could implement a specialized kind of AmazonRelationship that would be specifically for the amazon links that can display the cover art. Part of the discussion is that displaying the cover art is nice (I would

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Bransden
On 14/06/06, derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For cases where an artist only changed it's name we might use a more general "renamed to"/"was previously known as" AR. i'm not so sure such cases would be indexed as seperate artists anyway. see http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrain

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Aaron Cooper
On 6/14/06, derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Cooper wrote: > In the case where a band literally *just* changes its name for legal > reason or because they are about to break into the commercial market, > "predecessor/successor" doesn't seem to apply. In all respects, the > band is ident

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding some AR attributes

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Bransden
On 14/06/06, Simon Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi again, to sum it up so far: there have been no vetoes but some discussion that put parts of this back to the RFC stage, so I'll split it as follows... I propose adding CoRelationshipAttribute to EngineerRelationshipType (the main type

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread derGraph
Aaron Cooper wrote: In the case where a band literally *just* changes its name for legal reason or because they are about to break into the commercial market, "predecessor/successor" doesn't seem to apply. In all respects, the band is identical and so the AR seems to be implying more than what i

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Aaron Cooper
In the case where a band literally *just* changes its name for legal reason or because they are about to break into the commercial market, "predecessor/successor" doesn't seem to apply. In all respects, the band is identical and so the AR seems to be implying more than what is needed. Will this

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding some AR attributes

2006-06-14 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Hi again, to sum it up so far: there have been no vetoes but some discussion that put parts of this back to the RFC stage, so I'll split it as follows... I propose adding CoRelationshipAttribute to EngineerRelationshipType (the main type, not all sub types) and within that to the sub type for

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread derGraph
Michelle . wrote: The only problem I can see is that the word "predecessor" can be misinterpreted to mean someone performing earlier, with a similar style. If you look up "musical predecessor" (with quotation marks) on Google, you'll see what I mean. So "A is a musical predecessor of B" woul

RE: [mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread Michelle .
The only problem I can see is that the word "predecessor" can be misinterpreted to mean someone performing earlier, with a similar style. If you look up "musical predecessor" (with quotation marks) on Google, you'll see what I mean. Michelle From: derGraph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Musi

[mb-style] RFV: new AR type "is the predecessor of"

2006-06-14 Thread derGraph
I've realized that the discussion on this issue has _just recently_ ebbed out ... Okay, I did forget about it. Don Redman and I proposed to introduce a new AR type for linking artist groups which changed their name along with a lineup change. The style council obviously favours the following w

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Amazon Relationship Type

2006-06-14 Thread azertus
This will not happen; it's a very ugly hack IMO. Besides, I don't think Amazon allows use of their cover art without a link, so you would have two links to Amazon using your proposal, and one of them would be wrong... Ugh! ;) Frederic Da Vitoria schreef: I think we need what is covered in the

RE: [mb-style] RFC: Dealing with translations and transliterations

2006-06-14 Thread Beth
That makes great sense, I agree. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bransden Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:32 AM To: MusicBrainz style discussion Subject: Re: [mb-style] RFC: Dealing with translations and transliterations On 14/06

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Dealing with translations and transliterations

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Bransden
On 14/06/06, Dustin B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's no reason to throw away good info right now just because we're confused with what to do with it, or worse disagree with it because it doesn't make the database "pretty". Remember the goal is the ultimate repository of music releases my c