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

Aaron Cooper cooperaa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 13:01:55 UTC 2008


On 11-Mar-08, at 8:00 AM, Mike Morrison wrote:

>
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
>> The only objection I recall is the wording of the AR for works lists
>> to tracks.  Personally, it may sound overly academic, but I prefer  
>> "is
>> an instance of" over "contains a recording of", if only because I
>> think, if/when we do add sessions as the NGS entities between track
>> masters and work lists, I think we'd want to save that particular
>> 'contains a recording of' wording for the AR we'd then use to link  
>> the
>> session to the work list.  Can anyone suggest any other alternate
>> wording, besides 'an instance of', which wouldn't cause us confusion
>> with track masters or sessions later down the line?
>>
>> Brian
>
> Just so I understand, if/when we have sessions, what would be the AR
> wording? Would the chain go something like this?
>
> Track is an instance of Track Master
> Track Master is a ???? of Session
> Session contains a recording of Work

I would have thought this:

Track is an instance of TrackMaster
TrackMaster is a recording of Session
Session is a performance of Work

-Aaron



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