In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manu Sporny
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Both the Beatles and Geoff Emerick
"contributed" to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", for instance:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band>
but one is clearly more significant than the other.
Sure - but what about this one:
http://music.yahoo.com/release/115057
Which one is more significant than the other - the label or the artist?
From the point of view of the target audience of that page, the artist.
Are "creators" more important than "contributors"? These questions are
philosophical in nature - you can't assume that "creator" should be used
to note the significance of a contribution.
Perhaps not - we need greater granularity.
There does seem to be a tendency in microformats, towards unduly low
granularity; I find that strange.
Why do you find that strange?
Because we're all interested in making human-readable data available to
machines. There seems little point in not doing so as well or as
thoroughly as is possible, for little extra effort.
(There is a pojnt of diminishing returns, but in this case as in many
others discussed here ion recent months, we're nowhere near it yet).
We're working with lowest common
denominator here. When you do that, you get low granularity.
Quite.
Although in classical music, the composer may be as-, or more-,
prominent than the artist; likewise the conductor. Higher granularity
would allow for such distinctions.
Sure - now all you have to do is find enough examples online, (we'll
need about 30 with the composer clearly denoted as well as the artist
with the composer more prominently displayed than the artist) for us to
make the argument for putting this feature into hAudio.
I don't *have* to do any such thing; though I happen to have already
started doing so; and I certainly don't have to comply with some
invented quantitative requirement (after all, it's well over a year
since I attempted to do so for the taxonomic names of living things, and
despite providing many millions, and having asked him numerous times,
Tantek has yet to give a simple yes or no answer to my question as to
whether that's sufficient).
--
Andy Mabbett
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