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{{Template:proposal |proposal=3 |discussion= |champion=[[BrianFreud]] |rfc= |rfv= |status=post-NGS |ar= |style= |trac= }} '''Status:''' [[Image:Attention.png]] ''This page is a collective proposal for new entities that have not yet been implemented, their behaviour and how to present them.'' This page holds [[Advanced Entity]] suggestions which have not already been implemented (or will be, in the NGS release), in some form or another. The initial text on this page all migrated from [[Advanced Entity]]. See [[Advanced Entity]] for older proposals, and [[Data Elements For Advanced Relationships|DataElementsForAdvancedRelationships]] for even older proposals. The following entities with the described behaviour are proposed: == AR to Series == == Series For compilation series == ** examples: [http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=caf%C3%A9+del+mar Café del Mar], [http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=Ministry+of+Sound Ministry of Sound], [http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=kontor Kontor], [http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=hed+kandi Hed Kandi], ... ** AR to URL possible (series website (use "official website"?), Wikipedia, discography site) ** lists all albums belonging to this series. Linkage through AR or through album attribute? ** Some attribute for the volume number an album has in a series, which makes sorting easier for inconsistent numbering styles ** AR to other series: "is subseries of" - for example Ministry of Sound consists of several sub series that have their own numbering ** "View Mods" for related edits == Studio For recording studios == ** AR to Album/Track ("has [instrument] recordings from ... to ... in") Alternatively an entity Location could be used for both recording studios and concert venues. * [[Meta Entity|MetaEntities]] We currently have problems linking entities of type Artist, Album or Track together. The reason is: all of them represent a concrete object. A track is a concrete performance, recording and release of the abstract idea of a '''song'''. If you want to link a track being a cover of another one you don't want to link it to another track by the original performer but to the song of that performer. In the same way an album as in the database is an actual release and not the abstract idea of an album (the music industry uses the same word for both). But often you don't want to link information to one release of an album but to all of them as a group. We have some pages describing these problems. [[Fundamental Mismatch Of MusicBrainz Entities And Reality|FundamentalMismatchOfMusicBrainzEntitiesAndReality]] describes the difference between the abstract objects and what we have in the database. [[Linking Different Artist Names|LinkingDifferentArtistNames]] and [[Don't Make Relationship Clusters|DontMakeRelationshipClusters]] list linking problems and try to give some solutions like linking to the earliest objects and such. Though meta entities / groups could solve problems magically I think. Compare the graphics in [[Don't Make Relationship Clusters|DontMakeRelationshipClusters]] to the following to see what I mean: [[Image:grouplinking.png]] See [[Location Proposal]] for something similar to this. == Artist Groups == Imagine a group representing a real live person. The group then contains Artist entities representing all names the person performs under - also if the person performs under his [[Legal Name|LegalName]] you have an entity for that in the group - or if the person performs under a short version of his [[Legal Name|LegalName]] ("Paul Peter Dingbat" -> "Paul Dingbat"). Still a problem: what do about legal name changes? Add them as entities to the group? A great advantage would be that the entities could easily inherit information like birth date, Wikipedia links, ... from their group. One could also use these groups for bands (some bands use aliases for some works or think about line-up changes and band name changes). But here you could get overlapping problems. (Note, this came out of the same original proposal which suggested 'Album Groups', now "Release Groups". == [[Box Set|BoxSet]] == for different albums belonging to one set == Mix Object == See [[Object Model/Mix Object]] and [[Track Grouping]]. == Recording Object == See [[Object Model/Recording Object]] and [[Track Grouping]]. == Master Object == See [[Object Model/Master Object]] and [[Track Grouping]].

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