[mb-style] ARs for labels

[Olivier]

2006/11/3, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com>:
>
> My comments:
>
> Some record labels have more than one parent at a time, this needs to
> be a many to one.
>

Ok. Doesn't sound problematic (unless I'm missing some technical issues).
Any ARTypes in the LabelAssociationRelationshipClass can be "many-to-one".

> somewhere a family tree of this stuff bookmarked, it's
> fascinating,can't find it right this second).

I would like to have it when you can find it.

>
> Secondly,  I would like to suggest the term catalog instead of
> discography, when referring to labels.
>
> It's a much more common term in the industry, and to the public, and
> on the rare occasion you can get hold of one from the company (some
> small ones still print 'em on paper, I recently found in my cellar a
> printed HMV CD catalog from about 1983, when it still fit on about 20
> pages :) or find it on their website, that's nearly always the term
> used.  Discography to me is strongly associated with a particular
> artist, or perhaps genre, across labels, while Catalog is strongliy
> associated with a particular label.
>

Mmmmmm... I guess label homepages may have "catalogs".
But IMHO, researchers do provide "discographies", not "catalogs".
Anyhow, I guess I'm a bit biased by some genre I'm working on.
So let it be to catalog if most people feel like it.

Regards,

- Olivier