[mb-users] Is their an artist property for an artists place of birth ?

[Philip Jägenstedt]

I am talking about nationality, but anything that involves the concept
"country" has the same problem. If we simply call it "region" then I
would be pretty much fine with it and not whine about the "People's
Republic of China Special Adminstrative region of Hong Kong" and the
like.

Sorry if I came off as overly negative, I just don't want to introduce
another "country" field when the one we already have (release country)
already has these problems.

Philip

On 11/2/07, Paul Taylor <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> > In other words, if I know that a person was born in France I'm not
> > able to convey that information because the required format
> > (geographical coordinates) are more specific than I know. I think this
> > would be the case for a very large portion of our artists, as detailed
> > biographic information isn't available for most less known artists.
> > But I shouldn't say I oppose any of this strongly, since I'm actually
> > not that passionate about the issue (or shouldn't be).
> >
> I think in your example you are actually taking about Nationality
> rather than PlaceofBirth, perhaps both would be useful. Of couse
> nationaility can change, and people can have dual nationaility, but
> these are the exceptions rather than the rule.
>
> > Wikipedia does not provide RDF formatted data that I am aware, and
> > neither does MusicBrainz (anymore), my point is just that instead of
> > tying more data not related to music into the database we ought to
> > work towards solutions where we can use the work that others have
> > already done instead of duplicating the effort.
> >
> But musicbrainz provides an equivalent, the XMLwebservice i.e semnatic
> web, wikipeda does not. Your right that we shouldnt add non-music
> related data to Musicbrainz, but if it is music related we should because
> Musicbrainz does a more better job than anybody else, and if MB doesnt
> do it the information will get lost. I think Place of Birth/Band
> Conception is music related as it has a great effect on the style of
> music of the artist, such as 'Madchester' (manchester) or Grunge (Seattle).
>
> Paul
>