Re: [mb-style] Locations and the upcoming schema change

2013-03-08 Thread Dainis Jonitis
Hello, I would also avoid nationality as it is yet another (controversial) dimension of data... It could be interesting to map on globe all places where Russian or German composers have been active, but not for this schema change. Let's first concentrate on purely geographical location. It can

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Add Soundtrack work type

2013-03-08 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Rachel Dwight hibiscuskazen...@gmail.comwrote: On Mar 8, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Dainis Jonitis joni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Great! Thanks everyone. Will use movie and theater tags to distinguish soundtrack types. Dainis I assume Television, Game, etc.,

Re: [mb-style] RFC-194: Book Work Type

2013-03-08 Thread Dainis Jonitis
+1 On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:09 AM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:41 AM, LordSputnik ben.s...@gmail.com wrote: Reopening this now, with the type renamed to Prose. Expected End Time: 2013-03-14, 23:59 GMT JIRA Ticket:

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Create guidelines for crediting remixes where original artist is not credited on release

2013-03-08 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 03/07/2013 07:44 PM, caller#6 wrote: On 03/07/2013 09:54 AM, Kuno Woudt wrote: If the track is not clearly credited on the back cover tracklisting, I consider that implicitly credited to the release artist -- although I would prefer it if the track and release artist credit fields

Re: [mb-style] RFC2 STYLE-121: Track numbering

2013-03-08 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 03/08/2013 01:53 AM, Ross Tyler wrote: Sides are not always lettered (e.g. A, B, ...). Sides are sometimes numbered (e.g. 1, 2, ...) or named (e.g. Black/White, This/That, ...). Side names are similar to disc names for multi-disc CD releases. The database currently has no support

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Create guidelines for crediting remixes where original artist is not credited on release

2013-03-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2013/3/7 caller#6 meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com On 03/07/2013 09:54 AM, Kuno Woudt wrote: If the track is not clearly credited on the back cover tracklisting, I consider that implicitly credited to the release artist -- although I would prefer it if the track and release artist

Re: [mb-style] RFC2 STYLE-121: Track numbering

2013-03-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2013/3/8 Ross Tyler rossety...@gmail.com On 03/07/2013 07:35 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: On 3/7/2013 6:53 PM, Ross Tyler wrote: Sides are not always lettered (e.g. A, B, ...). Understood, but I don't think it's a good idea to store that. How do we do the actual track number then? Is track 1 on

Re: [mb-style] RFC2 STYLE-121: Track numbering

2013-03-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2013/3/8 Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl Hello, On 03/08/2013 01:53 AM, Ross Tyler wrote: Sides are not always lettered (e.g. A, B, ...). Sides are sometimes numbered (e.g. 1, 2, ...) or named (e.g. Black/White, This/That, ...). Side names are similar to disc names for multi-disc CD releases.

Re: [mb-style] RFC2 STYLE-121: Track numbering

2013-03-08 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 03/08/2013 10:36 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: 2013/3/8 Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl mailto:k...@frob.nl Hello, On 03/08/2013 01:53 AM, Ross Tyler wrote: Sides are not always lettered (e.g. A, B, ...). Sides are sometimes numbered (e.g. 1, 2, ...) or named (e.g.

Re: [mb-style] RFC2 STYLE-121: Track numbering

2013-03-08 Thread Ross Tyler
On 03/07/2013 11:32 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: On 3/7/2013 10:12 PM, Ross Tyler wrote: Or, said another way, why it is *right* to lose this information. I have not heard one. No information is lost compared to the status quo which is that we don't store *any* side information at all. That is just

Re: [mb-style] Locations and the upcoming schema change

2013-03-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2013/3/8 SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com I would strongly dislike the introduction of nationality: That's a can of worms. Outsourcing the country issue to an external authority was one of the wiser decisions of the community. I wouldn't mingle with that. And the introduction of historical

Re: [mb-style] Locations and the upcoming schema change

2013-03-08 Thread SwissChris
Sufficient as far as MB is concerned. We're not a biographical Encyclopedia. I wouldn't want to discuss here the question of borders and correct names for political entities in 18th century Germany or Italy, nor whether Kosovo or Palestine are to be considered countries nor from what date the

Re: [mb-style] Locations and the upcoming schema change

2013-03-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Ah, but I wasn't speaking of political borders. I was saying that historical borders had a major cultural signification, and that current political borders (which IIUC is the only thing you want to consider) are mostly irrelevant for example for Vivaldi or Bach or Mozart. There aren't so many

Re: [mb-style] Locations and the upcoming schema change

2013-03-08 Thread Edgars Ducens
2013/3/8 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2013/3/8 SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com I would strongly dislike the introduction of nationality: That's a can of worms. Outsourcing the country issue to an external authority was one of the wiser decisions of the community. I wouldn't mingle

Re: [mb-style] Locations and the upcoming schema change

2013-03-08 Thread SwissChris
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: Ah, but I wasn't speaking of political borders. I was saying that historical borders had a major cultural signification, and that current political borders (which IIUC is the only thing you want to consider) are