[mb-style] ARs for labels

[Olivier]

Some more ideas:

I - How will we deal with the concept of "Collections".
Some are not officially "sub-labels", or "divisions", but they may be
used extensively by the label as a "label name".
See for example what Fantasy did with its Original Jazz Classics
collection: most resource, and most people, use OJC as a label name,
though AFAIK it *was never* officially a label.
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Jazz/Labels/OriginalJazzClassics


II - What about labels names changes?
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Jazz/Labels/Prestige
was initially for a short period of time named New Jazz. Then they
reissued the stuff under their new name...


III - Catalog numbers *and* UPC/EAN?
Will we have both for releases?
This is highly wanted I guess.
The ideal would be to be able to attach all together a cat# + UPC +
release event(s?) + ASIN.


IV - URL--Label
I forgot to add to the others:
"URL is an history page for Label A"
(this is the equivalent of Biography for artists).


V - Label history can become very complex
Labels can went bankrupt, then be revived as a subsidiary, or even as
independent entities.
After all, I'm not sure we can do it with simple founded in YYYY,
disbanded in YYYY.
Ideally, we may need multiple activity periods:
YYYY-YYYY
then
XXXX-XXXX


VI - Label--Person ARs
We could really use most of what we have for "Release-Person
production ARs" (except the silly ones :D)



VII - wanna help
I'm *highly* interested by this stuff.
If I can do anything (sum-up all the stuff we need, write
wiki/info-blob for ARs, whatever), just ask.


- Olivier