develop guidelines for data entry/contributions

A database is only as good as the quality of its data and metadata (neither of which include bios or reviews).  The existing process for manual data-entry has been inconsistent, incomplete and imperfect.  When users follow Xperi's instruction for product submissions, data-entry can still be incomplete.

Every Xperi employee seems to use his/her judgment on how to perform data-entry, because there are apparently no guidelines.  For example, data-entry can list a duo's albums under the discographies of: each artist as an individual primary artist; the duo as a performing entity but not under each artist individually; or both (cross-listing).  Similarly for primary artists who are billed with their backing band, especially if that backing band has also recorded independently on its own.

So Xperi needs to first adopt data submission guidelines that would standardize its data-entry and to which users can conform.  Without guidelines, two users who are independently submitting data for the same release can have different inputs in every data field.  With guidelines, their submissions should be identical, complete and perfect.

P.S. Xperi should study how other databases (not necessarily those for music) validate user contributed release-level data, which can be achieved with some degree of automation.