Just quickly. You can either use labels like :Band, :Artist
And if you know that you have a band you can still create MEMBER_OF relationships between the individual and the bands. There are some other projects in this area, like the musicbrainz -> neo4j or lastfm import Or startups like musimap or mediahound that manage the worlds music and media in Neo4j Michael On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Henry <henry.maca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all! > > First of all I want to thank everyone on the Neo4j team for all their hard > work on such a promising and exciting new technology. > > > I'm working on a bit of a pet project at the moment; I'm hoping to take > the data dumps from Discogs (a record collection site) and load it into > Neo4j. My primary goal with this data is to expose the data between > *releases* and *artists* (main artists as well as extra artists in terms > of credits). > > The challenge with the Discogs data is that there is no differentiation > between "individual" *artists* and "group" *artists *(bands, etc)*. *They > are all contained within the *artists* collection. I'm more interested in > exposing the relationships of *individuals*, using *groups* as ancillary > metadata if applicable, and so therefore need to differentiate groups > somehow in the graph. Fortunately, many of the *artists* that are in fact > *groups > *contain *members* that link back to individual *artists.* > > Does anyone have any idea how he or she could model this data, since in > effect I'll need to "break apart" one single field to two separate node > types in the graph? I've attached a quick SVG I created in the arrow tool > to help visualize. Maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Neo4j" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neo4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neo4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
