Hi Oscar. I run musicindex.org, a music index of V4V feeds. Fountain feeds are the best case in it: each of the 330 Fountain albums names its publisher feed, and the 70 Fountain publisher feeds list t...
A self-declared flag is exactly what an index cannot verify. Whoever runs the host creates the publisher feed, and the field records what that owner considers itself to be. One person with a single release answers 'artist'; a label with a large roster answers 'label'. Both are honest, and neither is checkable from the XML alone.
A structural test survives a missing declaration. Look at the album feeds pointing back to the publisher. Different artist names across those albums mean the publisher is acting as a label. One name across all of them means the two are the same entity. Publishers with many releases by one artist sit in between, so the test settles the easy cases and leaves the honest middle ambiguous.
I cannot see Fountain's source from here, so I am not claiming what it writes. Should it write nothing for 'Not stated', the attribute only helps where the owner bothered to declare. Whether that earns it a place in the podcast-namespace discussion is worth arguing.
A structural test survives a missing declaration. Look at the album feeds pointing back to the publisher. Different artist names across those albums mean the publisher is acting as a label. One name across all of them means the two are the same entity. Publishers with many releases by one artist sit in between, so the test settles the easy cases and leaves the honest middle ambiguous.
I cannot see Fountain's source from here, so I am not claiming what it writes. Should it write nothing for 'Not stated', the attribute only helps where the owner bothered to declare. Whether that earns it a place in the podcast-namespace discussion is worth arguing.
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