Re: [mb-users] ARs for references in works?

2013/10/2 Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen <[email protected]>

> Den 02-10-2013 15:47, Frederic Da Vitoria skrev:
> To be honest though: I'm not wholly convinced that these ARs really
> demand the schema change that would be needed for ARs to have
> comments/annotations - annotating the Work(s) involved should be fine.
> E.g., "Song About Awesome Thing" could have the AR "references My
> Awesome Thing" and an annotation "Song About Awesome Thing is in the
> same key and has the same chord progression in the chorus as My Awesome
> Thing and also alludes to the subjects discussed in My Awesome Thing in
> the lyrical content throughout the song." - and that would be a perfect
> use for Work annotations, IMHO.
>

Yes and no. Yes because I agree that having this type of information in the
Work annotation would be nice. No because MB is a database, not a wiki, and
relevant information should be stored in such a way that it is linked to
the data it refers to. Putting the comment in the annotation would kind of
"link" it to one of the Works, but not to the other. So that, :
1 - the annotation would appear in "Song About Awesome Thing" but not in
"My Awesome Thing",
2 - if a user deleted the AR, he could very well forget to remove the
annotation in the Work
3 - it would be impossible to do a lot of useful queries like getting a
list of which ARs have a comment/annotation (although I agree that in most
situations comment/annotation would probably not be needed in a first step).

But I agree that until the schema change is done (if it is decided to do
it), we could use the Work annotation.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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