[Data-modeling] The Songwriter type considered

[Ed Laurent]

Why not keep the Songwriter tag and co-type it with Composer and Lyricist?
This way that would allow users to add properties for both types at the same
time to a topic when needed AND define a different category/level of
musicianship.

-Ed

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Ron Wiecki <rwiecki at library.wisc.edu>
wrote:

> Composer is preferable, since it's the more encompassing category.
>
> Ron Wiecki
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>
> Daniel E. Renfer wrote:
> > 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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