[Developers] More proposed music changes

[Christopher R. Maden]

No, we won’t be sending mail like this every time we change any schema, 
but there’s so much music data and so much interest in it, we want to 
make sure we don’t break anything.

There are two proposed changes implemented on sandbox.freebase.com.

There’s one new type, “Musical Group,” which now holds the group members 
property, instead of that being a property of “Musical Artist.”

There’s another new type, “Multipart Album,” which is used to model 
albums with more than one disc.  The actual track listings are part of 
the member discs, but the multipart album is what shows up in an 
artist’s discography.

Take a look at Pink Floyd (<URL: 
http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000003bd2794 
 >) for an example.  They’re now a “Musical Group” as well as a “Musical 
Artist,” and their albums _Ummagumma_, _The Wall_, _Delicate Sound of 
Thunder_, and the box set _Shine On_ are now modeled as “Multipart Albums.”

What do you think?  Will this break any of your applications?  Please 
comment on the Freebase Music domain discussion page.

~Chris
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Christopher R. Maden
Data Architect
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
<URL: http://www.metaweb.com/ >