[Data-modeling] The Songwriter type considered

[Daniel E. Renfer]

Since it doesn't have any unique properties, and the areas that it 
covers are better represented with the other two types, it seems that 
Songwriter is pretty much useless.

There doesn't even appear to be any properties that expect Songwriter, I 
think you should be able to safely remove it and re-type all existing 
Songwriters as Composer+Lyricist

Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> The properties that Songwriter used to have (<URL: 
> http://www.freebase.com/view/music/songwriter >) are now on Composer 
> (Songs Composed) and Lyricist (Lyrics Written).
> 
> One thing to do would be to delete the Songwriter type altogether, since 
> no longer serves a modeling purpose.
> 
> However, it has some arguable semantic value; in that case, I would say 
> that it should include both Composer and Lyricist; if someone is not 
> both a composer and lyricist, they are not (in my opinion) a songwriter.
> 
> Anyone have strong opinions about this?  I am leaning towards making it 
> include Composer and Lyricist.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris

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