Discussions on Musical Album

Previous Release?

The "previous release" and "next release" properties don't make sense to me. First, they encode ordering redundantly -- one can generate a time-ordered list of releases. Second, they are very unlikely to be filled in (because of the first issue), so they will never be queryable in any meaningful way.

I recommend hiding them as they only clutter the display and will probably not be useful to API users because of data sparseness.
robert Feb 8, 2007
I agree. I've hidden these properties for now. We can bring them back if they become useful, or garden them out if they don't.
danm Feb 8, 2007

I've added a link back to Musical Release

Musical releases are like versions of an album, it will be useful for someone to be able to view a release list for a particular album.

danm Mar 2, 2007

Review Fields for albums

Being new to Freebase, I'm not sure how to do this myself (I doubt I can without Admin access), the the Musical Album/Release/Track types should have fields for Reviews... I'm quite sure people will want to read critical praise/flames about albums they are perusing.

mlaurenc May 4, 2007

Yep - they sure will. What you can do is create a music review type in your private domain to experiment with this. You can create a private type by going to the "My profile" page and adding the new type to the "types created" list. After adding a new type, click on it to edit its schema. The schema editor is fairly complex, but since this type is private, you can experiment without breaking anything.

Here's one possible schema for the type Music Review:

- reviewer [type: Music Reviewer]
- review blurb [type: text]
- rating (1 = worst, 5=best) [type:integer, or type:float if you want to allow 2.5, 3.5, etc)
- reviewed album [type: Musical Album]

Note that you don't need to add a title field for your review because the display name property is already there on the type you created.

Once you've created this type, you can create a new instance of it - a review. Give the review a name, fill in the fields, and you're done.

I've glossed over how to create the type "Music Reviewer," but I hope this gives you enough ideas to start experimenting. Also, look at how other types are structured by editing them. Don't worry about breaking any public schema - since you don't own them, your changes won't be saved in edit mode.

patrick May 4, 2007