[mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:42 AM, David K. Gasaway <dave at gasaway.org> wrote:

> On 3 Mar 2008 at 9:30, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
>
> > Wiki again. The nice thing about the wiki idea is that we can use the
> > pre-NGS time to test different ways to present the data and when NGS
> > comes we will have a better idea of how it should be done.
>
> I don't understand your solution.  The wiki has been a reasonable
> solution thus far, because there was no direct link between the tracks
> and the wiki.  In other words, the database didn't have to worry about
> all the odd edge cases because the users could ad-hoc some solution
> into the free-form track title based on the wiki and help form other
> editors.  Now we're considering an AR between the track and a work
> list, how does the wiki help?  What would would the work list and wiki
> have to say about a single track symphony performance?
>

The issue you mentioned is that the lists of works for a composer would get
huge and finding a particular work (or part of a work) would be difficult. I
am suggesting that we use the wiki to present structured lists of the works.
A little like the master lists, but using links instead of text. Of course,
there would be nothing automatic in building those lists. When a user would
add a new work, he'd have to add in the corresponding wiki too. But I don't
have any better solution to offer.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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