Sure, but that's the problem with freedb.org already. It's full of garbage, and moreover, there's no meaningful community, no way to establish conventions for managing the data, and the authoring tools suck ass.
Advantages of adopting a more wiki-like structure could include: more of an opportunity to organize and manage the tags, editing histories, the possibility of pulling together a community that would make better decisions about the data than 100,000 monkeys acting alone.
One of the disadvantages is that wikis have traditionally discouraged firm restrictions on the format of the data. That might be a significant problem but it also might not.
Thanks for the link to musicbrainz.org. That's kind of what I'm getting at, though I think it has too much interface.
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Date: 2007-09-14 06:47 pm (UTC)Also see musicbrainz.org.
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Date: 2007-09-14 07:21 pm (UTC)Advantages of adopting a more wiki-like structure could include: more of an opportunity to organize and manage the tags, editing histories, the possibility of pulling together a community that would make better decisions about the data than 100,000 monkeys acting alone.
One of the disadvantages is that wikis have traditionally discouraged firm restrictions on the format of the data. That might be a significant problem but it also might not.
Thanks for the link to musicbrainz.org. That's kind of what I'm getting at, though I think it has too much interface.