That makes sense. Thank you for your reply!

On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 7:47:51 AM UTC-5, Michael Hunger wrote:
>
> 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 <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> 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?
>>
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