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

[Olivier]

2008/3/4, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>:
> Was: Proposal: Add pre-NGS works lists, change the intent of CSG,
>
> modify the "version of " AR into an 'instance of' AR,

I'm not sure I understand what you propose here...

Do you mean we could skip entirely the "later version" AR, because
it's "implied" as soon as two different recordings from the same
artist are instances of the same work?
If so, what we still loose is the availability of such an information.
Right now, you can directly find out all the different versions of a
song by a given artist (assuming the data is present - by checking the
earliest version and see to what it links).
If I understand well your suggestion, that would be replaced by a work
linking to all "instances" of it, for *all* artists.

Actually, that would pretty much turn this AR into the "cover AR"...


> and change the
>  suggested target point for the "cover of", "parody of", "version of",

Parody is an attribute of cover anyhow, so that's just one case.
Now, do we really want covers to link to compositions?
If so, how different would it be from the "instance of" AR?

> Actually, adding the work lists still is still desired, just not the
>  way I had described.  I just don't think it needs a proposal now, if
>  it's actually on the quick-list for implementation anyhow.  If anyone
>  thinks it does, though, I'm sure we could quick-RFV just that part, as
>  luks describes implementing it, to get it officially passed asap.
>  This RFC then takes care of the basic AR and CSG stuff to make any
>  work list then useful, and solving the majority of difficulties for
>  the two views on classical titles.
>

/me more confused :-)
Do you mean your proposal about these ARs is to be discussed later? or
now? or not at all? :-)


Cheers.

- Olivier