Malice Mizer Archive

A version-controlled digital humanities project for Malice Mizer:

• Print bibliography — magazine coverage (1992–2001)
• Discography — albums, singles, songs
• Gig lists — concerts with setlists and lineups
• Performance links — YouTube and other footage URLs

Source of truth

Structured YAML under data/ generates SQLite, CSV/XLSX/PDF exports, and a static website.

See data/STRUCTURE.md for how this maps to the suggested multi-folder archive layout.

Quick start

make venv
make seed          # magazine stubs (first time)
make music-seed    # discography + gig stubs (first time)
make all

Command	Description
make validate	Validate all YAML against JSON Schema
make build	Build SQLite + site JSON
make export	Export CSV and XLSX
make site	Build Astro static site
make pdf	Generate print bibliography PDF

Site sections

URL	Content
/	Magazine bibliography with filters
/timeline	Unified chronology (releases, gigs, magazine issues)
/discography	Albums and singles
/gigs	Concert list with performance links
/appearances	TV, radio, and variety appearances (entity graph)
/members	Member profiles
/gallery	Curated promo and portrait gallery
/flyers	Flyer catalog
/videos	PVs and standalone footage
/translations	English translations index
/browse	Entity graph explorer
/ontology	Type-level ontology map and relation vocabulary
/attribution	Image and scan provenance
/legal	Licenses, affiliation notice, and reuse terms

Licensing

Project source code is licensed under the MIT License. Archive content (bibliographic YAML, English translations, exported datasets) is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Third-party scans and magazine pages remain subject to original rights holders — see docs/LICENSE.md, docs/SOURCES.md, and the site attribution page.

Data entry

• Magazines: data/issues/<publication>/
• Releases: data/albums/, data/singles/, data/songs/
• Live: data/concerts/, data/venues/
• Footage: performances[] on concerts, or data/videos/
• Images: images/covers/, images/flyers/, etc. (link via cover_image fields)

Research rules: docs/RESEARCH.md · Sources: docs/SOURCES.md · Entity schema: docs/SCHEMA.md · Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md

Entity graph (v2)

Relationships live in data/links.yaml plus derived fields (appears_on, personnel, setlists). Build the resolved index with:

make entities    # validate + ontology docs + build links_index.json
make ontology    # regenerate docs/ONTOLOGY.md only

See docs/SCHEMA.md for ID conventions, relation vocabulary, and migration from v1. The formal type-level ontology is documented in docs/ONTOLOGY.md.

data/appearances/ is validated by make entities and summarized on the public /appearances index (full relationship data on entity pages).

Research tools

.venv/bin/python scripts/research/ndl_search.py --publication "FOOL'S MATE" --year 1992