History:Next Generation Schema/History

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This is a process working towards a greater release covering a lot of database schema changes and the connected interface and client changes. (started in October 2005)

The changes are related to album groups, track groups, multiple artists and many more issues and produce a lot n:n tables.

At the moment we are in the planing phase so this is FutureWork.

Previous documents addressing those changes are (some only of historical interest):

The current rework is split into:

Shepard and DonRedman have started ObjectModel, a collaborative document, that tries to describe all objects that MusicBrainz deals with in an abstract manner. This is not supposed to be a database schema, but some preliminary analysis that can then lead to a database schema (BIG difference!).