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  1. MusicBrainz Style
  2. STYLE-462

Advice and documentation required for large events and Event series

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      It is currently unclear how larger and more complex events should be modelled.
      It would be good to improve the Event documentation to cover this.

      Questions

      • Should the year be included in the title (even if it is also included in the date attribute?)
      • How should an event with multiple stages and venues over multiple days be represented (eg Glastonbury: http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/errnc8/performances/lg49mb)
      • When creating a complex inter-relationship of lots of separate series and event types, should the names of the ancestors be copied into the children - or should the UI infer this?
        • For example, if you wanted to create a list of events for a single season, it could result in a lot of duplicate text in the view.

      Series: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/series/02c9a5b9-6b2c-461e-953d-6d4f6a9cc2d2
      One year Festival: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/event/2df30019-64a3-4281-b917-bb35a0563b1c
      Single prom event: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/event/e1b75bd6-6a99-40d3-94be-d2c0c509d320

      Freso has suggested the following style:
      https://www.musicbrainz.org/event/206f9b9d-323d-4cbf-bd9d-95d67507630e

      Which looks really good when viewing a single event but does duplicate information, for example an index for all the day events in 1921 might look like this:

      • The Proms 1921: Prom 04 (1921-08-18)
      • The Proms 1921: Prom 05 (1921-08-19)
      • The Proms 1921: Prom 06 (1921-08-20)
      • The Proms 1921: Prom 07 (1921-08-21)
      • The Proms 1921: Prom 08 (1921-08-22)
      • The Proms 1921: Prom 09 (1921-08-23)
      • The Proms 1921: Prom 10 (1921-08-24)
      • The Proms 1921: Prom 11 (1921-08-25)

      However duplicating the information makes searching and disambiguation much easier.

            reosarevok Nicolás Tamargo
            njh Nicholas J Humfrey
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