discogs_affiliation — Discogs artist-label affiliations (2015)
- Description
A bipartite network of musical artists and the record labels of their releases, from the Discogs database. Discogs (discogs.com) is a user-built online database of music recordings, whose contributors catalogue releases (albums, singles, compilations, etc.) together with their credits; its content is published as monthly XML dumps. This network is built from the releases dump of 1 October 2015, which contains the 6,379,659 releases accepted in the database at that time (drafts and the few rejected or deleted releases of the dump are excluded). Nodes are artists and labels, and an edge connects an artist to a label for each release of that label in which the artist is credited; repeated edges correspond to different releases. An artist is credited in a release either as one of its main artists or with a release-wide credit (e.g. producer, mixer, or performer on all tracks, the "extra artists"); credits limited to individual tracks are not included. When a release has several labels (co-releases, sublabels, distributors listed as labels), the artist is connected to each of them.
Artists are identified by their Discogs id, and their names are the Discogs names, which include a numeric suffix (e.g. "John Smith (2)") to distinguish artists with the same name. The dump of 2015 does not contain label ids, and labels are therefore identified by their names, which are unique in Discogs. Discogs uses placeholder artists such as "Various" (for compilations) and "Unknown Artist", and placeholder labels such as "Not On Label" (with variants for self-released records), which are kept as nodes.
The network has the following properties:
- (Node)
is_artist: whether the node is an artist (otherwise it is a label). - (Node)
name: the name of the artist or label. - (Node)
discogs_id: the Discogs id of the artist (-1 for labels). - (Edge)
release: the Discogs id of the release. - (Edge)
year: the release year as entered in Discogs (-1 if unknown; a few values are evidently mistyped, e.g. 198 or 4198). - (Edge)
extra: whether the artist is credited only as an extra artist of the release (otherwise it is one of its main artists).
- (Node)
- Tags
- Economic Employment Affiliation Unweighted Multigraph Timestamps Metadata
- Added
- 2020-08-11
- Citation
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- Discogs, "Discogs data dumps: releases, 1 October 2015." data.discogs.com
- Upstream URL OK
- https://data.discogs.com/
- Upstream license
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication), https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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- $\left<k\right>$
- Mean degree
- $\sigma_k$
- Standard deviation of the degrees
- $\lambda_h$
- Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
- $\tau$
- Random walk mixing time
- $r$
- Degree assortativity
- $c$
- Global clustering coefficient
- $\oslash$
- (Pseudo-) diameter
- $S$
- Relative size of the largest component
- NPs
- Node properties
- EPs
- Edge properties