Advanced Relationship Type

Types of AdvancedRelationships

Status: This file will eventually list all available types of AdvancedRelationships and link to a WikiPage for each. But this needs time. In the meantime there is the list from the original source file below. There is also some good but slightly historical information about AdvancedRelationshipTypeDevelopment. --DonRedman

WikiZens working on this, see some notes at the very bottom of this page --DonRedman

Looking to add a new Relationship Type for AR?

Suggested additions or changes to AdvancedRelationshipTypes are listed on AdvancedRelationshipTypeProposals and discussed on the MailingList.

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.

There are a couple of top-level classes of relationship types. I will describe the relationships in detail on a page for each class.

• 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.

• AlternateVersionRelationshipClass:

• 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.

• 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!

• OpenDataRelationshipClass:

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

All Relationship Types

The following is an automatically generated list of all AdvancedRelationshipTypes (Note that there are currently two such lists, I will unify this once the category advanced relationship type is well intertwingled):

Table of all possible relationships

You need to be a LinkEditor to follow these links (so this is pretty useless for most users). --DonRedman

Note that the versions in MusicBrainz referenced by the links in the table above have had copy editing and clarification performed, and are probably more authoritative than the descriptions below, at least until those are updated and have more detail. @alex

	Artist	Album	Track
Artist	Artist--Artist	-	-
Album	Album--Artist	Album--Album	-
Track	Artist--Track	Album--Track	Track--Track
URL	Artist--URL	Album--URL	Track--URL

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How to fill the gaps of 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 AlbumArtistRelationships, etc. Respect the order in the table above (e.g. there are no ArtistAlbumRelationships!).
• 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