Advanced Relationship Type

Types of AdvancedRelationships

This page lists all available types of AdvancedRelationships. It links to pages that explain the usage of the respective relationship types.

Note that some of these types might still be proposals, this will be stated on their respective page. There is also some good but slightly historical information about AdvancedRelationshipTypeDevelopment.

Looking to add a new Relationship Type for AR?

Suggested additions or changes to AdvancedRelationshipTypes are listed as ProposedAdvancedRelationshipTypes (formerly AdvancedRelationshipTypeProposals) and discussed on the StyleMailingList.

Existing Types of Relationships

Some relationships have AdvancedRelationshipAttributes.

Classes

Relationship types are grouped into thematical AdvancedRelationshipClasses. These are explained here. All types that belong to one class are explained on the class page. There is also a complete list of relationship types further below.

• PerformanceRelationshipClass:

• This denotes all artists who played on a specific performance of a work. This means that they actually produced some new audio material, e.g. who sung or played some instrument. Remixing existing audio material or engineering the audio signal is not covered by this class.

• AlternativeVersionRelationshipClass:

• This describes relationships between related works, e.g. works that are the same, remastered from another, a cover from another, etc.

• RemixRelationshipClass:

• This denotes al artistic activity where existing recordings are used to create (remix) something new. You can specify who remixed what material on what work. This does not refer to mix engineers in studios etc.

• CompositionRelationshipClass:

• This denotes all artists who created some aspect of the general work, i.e. not a specific performance of it but the lyrics, the score or the arrangement.

• ProductionRelationshipClass:

• This denotes all people and institutions that were involved in the production on the work, but did not play music: the manager, cover designer, audio mix engineer, etc. but not actual performers or remixers.

• MusicalAssociationRelationshipClass:

• This describes who was a member of which group, who collaborated with whom etc.

• PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass:

• This describes family relationships and liasons between artists that are in the database anyway.

• AffiliateRelationshipClass:

• These are links to records in affiliate databases

• DiscographyRelationshipClass:

• These are links to discographic resources

• GetMusicRelationshipClass:

• These are links to sites where you can download and/or buy the music. Note that these must be legal, or MusicBrainz will run into trouble!

• OtherDatabasesRelationshipClass:

• These are links to other databases about the artists, the music etc.

All Relationship Types

The following is an automatically generated list of all AdvancedRelationshipTypes:

• (Note that this list might also contain types which are not implemented yet, We will probably need another category for official AR types)

Table of all possible relationships

The following table shows all possible relationship types. The links lead to the definition trees on the MusicBrainz server. You must be a RelationshipEditor to change these definitions.

	Artist	Release	Track
Artist	Artist--Artist	-	-
Release	Release--Artist	Release--Release	-
Track	Artist--Track	Release--Track	Track--Track
URL	Artist--URL	Release--URL	Track--URL

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How to write advanced relationships documentation

I have created a couple of templates, that should help --DonRedman:

• RelationshipClassTemplate
• RelationshipTypeTemplate
• RelationshipAttributeTemplate

The naming conventions are:

• Drop the "Advanced" in WikiNames if you specify what kind of relationship you are talking about. Basically use AdvancedRelationships only when you talk about the whole feature, else use Relationship.
• There are AdvancedRelationshipClasses, AdvancedRelationshipTypes, and AdvancedRelationshipAttributes.
• There are ReleaseArtistRelationships, etc. Respect the order in the table above (e.g. there are no ArtistReleaseRelationships!).
• Naming of AdvancedRelationshipTypes is a delicate matter. I don't have a real advice here. Ask others to review your WikiNames ...
• Other pages of interest are (add more here):
  • ArtistRoleInheritance
  • DontMakeRelationshipClusters

Discussion

The table above... would it be a useful thing to create the {Artist,Release,Track}{Artist,Release,Track}Relationship pages? -- MartinRudat 03:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)