Re: Data Import Policy

Dear Paul,

> I have a particular interest in improving the links between Musicbrainz
> (artist, releases and labels) with Discogs. I took the approach it is
> very difficult to correctly link 100% of the time but it is quite easy
> to find potential links that are right at least 95% of the time so my
> solution was generate potential links and make them available so others
> can submit them if they are interested. This takes an artist centric
> approach and concentrates on finding links for releases and making it
> easier to import releases from discogs as well for any artist.
>
> I do plan to create reports showing potential artist and labels as well.
>
> This is all available at http://albunack.net and might be of interest to
> you.
>
> Whilst adding a link doesn't modify existing data, it would be more
> useful if additional data from the linked entity was also added but of
> course you have to be even sure it is correct. For example if two
> releases are matched on various metadata criteria but the MusicBrainz
> release did not have a barcode entered and the Discogs one does then it
> makes sense to add the Discogs barcode at the same as linking it. It is
> possible to do this using the seed release mechanism, what is not
> possible is to edit existing data, i.e you can add a barcode but not
> modify an existing barcode.
>
Thanks for sending the information about your project, I will definitely 
have a look at it!

Best regards,

Andre