The problem here is that the "nationality" of a composer is more a cultural concept which cannot be captured by (historical) political or geographical boundaries.
See Giuseppe Verdi, maybe the most Italian of all italian composers who, quoting wikipedia "was born (…) in Le Roncole<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roncole>, a village near Busseto <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busseto>, then in the Département Taro <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_(d%C3%A9partement)> which was a part of the First French Empire<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_French_Empire> after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Parma_and_Piacenza>." What would you chose, even in a free input field? Chris/chabreyflint On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <[email protected]>wrote: > You may kind of have a point here: setting a normalized historical country > may be impossible. So maybe a free-input field would be better. > > > 2011/7/14 SwissChris <[email protected]> > >> oops, that should read "born in 1810" of course :/ >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 PM, SwissChris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Let's not open this can of worms, pleeaaase ;-) Let's agree, as Rob >>> wisely suggests, that the "country" field indicates to which modern day >>> country the place a person was born in belongs today. The ISO list has the >>> advantage to cover every place on earth and to be automatically updated when >>> changes occur. We don't discuss it, we just use it, leaving >>> political/historical debates out of MB. >>> >>> About the suggested wikipedia lists of countries I don't think they're >>> any good. Or try e.g. to attribute a correct country to Frédéric Chopin, a >>> (by basically all sources) *polish* composer, born in 1820 near Warsaw >>> ;-) >>> >>> Chris/chabreyflint >>> >>> >>> 2011/7/14 Kovács Endre János <[email protected]> >>> >>>> There are two lists on Wikipedia that may be a good starting point: >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_sovereign_states >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_countries_in_Europe_after_1815 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Nikki <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Hello, >>>> > >>>> > I finally got chance to ask Rob about this. He said that his general >>>> > feeling is that the ISO list shouldn't get further polluted and the >>>> > field should indicate the modern day country the person was born in. >>>> > >>>> > Of course, that doesn't mean we can't think of other ways to implement >>>> > historical countries. Does anyone know if there's any existing set of >>>> > historical country data anywhere? I'm not sure we really want to get >>>> > involved in deciding what was a country or not ourselves... >>>> > >>>> > Nikki >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MusicBrainz-style mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >>>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MusicBrainz-style mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >> > > > > -- > Frederic Da Vitoria > (davitof) > > Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - > http://www.april.org > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
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