From: Jérôme <rom...@ya...> - 2008-09-12 08:52:47
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Hello Frederico, > One of my objectives is to be able to track the sources in individual > records. I'm adding a sourceref to every event to the appropriate > source. I then scan the document (lets assume that it is a Catholic > birth record for this example, consisting of one page of a larger book > that covers the entire year) and add it to the media. I try to keep a rule : Event = one source with images and ref (call number) related to repository. I use /source/ tab on Person for contemporary time (internet, distant cousins), except recent publications which are also sources which will join events. /Media Object/ are just a part of source. I do not add a source on media (infinite loop) I made 2 groups in my mind : * /Person/ & /Event/ & /Place/ & /Family/ * /Source/ & /Media Object/ & /Note/ & /Repository/ My primary bridge is /Event/ <-> /Source/ secondary /Person/ <--> /Media Object/ Former users will recognize (GRAMPS 1.x & GRAMPS 2.x 3.x) ... ;) > If I understood correctly the description of the > Media should be ideally in line with the sourceref Volume/Page field - > I initially named each media like "Birth certificate of Foo" but that > becomes impractical when several different records are in the same > page. I use sourceref on event for storing information coming from source (data on Image) : ie. volume, page or date on right head corner or in margin, etc .... There was many discussion on mailing list ... http://www.nabble.com/Sources-and-sourceref---part-2-td10167633.html http://www.nabble.com/sources%2C-subsources-and-sourceref-td9866329.html http://www.nabble.com/local-gallery-tab-in-source-reference-td13292214.html Benny said : > Continental european sources (at least roman catholic) are often parish registries, which are logs of birth/marriage/death. So every birth, the priest makes a log entry. The original registries have no page numbering or sections. The only way of finding the correct entry is the log date, hence the date in source reference. Also, certificates are often produced one or a few days after the event (which is itself dated in the certificate). I try to avoid using Page/Volum because it is not easy to manage or to retrieve. That's how I work, this suits me. The program is very flexible, everyone can find an operation that suits him. Jérôme R. Frederico Muñoz a écrit : > Greetings, > > I've started to use GRAMPS to manage my family tree and assist me in > further investigations and overall I'm very happy with it, congrats, > very feature full and nice to use. > > I've been reading the wiki, the documentation and the forum archives > and I still have some doubts regarding sources, sourcerefs and images. > This message is more to hear about how other people use it and try to > learn a better way. > > I'm trying to follow the "recommended" best-practices that I catch > here and there; as an example I'm using Source to mean an entire book > (say, "1890 Baptism Book of Parish X", "Inquisition Process on Purity > of individual Y", etc) and sourcerefs to indicate the page number and > other identification that pinpoints the page in the overall book. > Sometimes I don't have a good idea of the source scope (e.g. some > parishes have books that span multiple years) but I still use the same > method, registering the year in the sourceref until I know for sure > how the physical source is divided. I further create a Repository > (Parish of Y, Civil Registry of X, etc) and associate the source with > the repository. > > One of my objectives is to be able to track the sources in individual > records. I'm adding a sourceref to every event to the appropriate > source. I then scan the document (lets assume that it is a Catholic > birth record for this example, consisting of one page of a larger book > that covers the entire year) and add it to the media. > > Here is the point where I'm not exactly sure on how to proceed. I'm > following the example put forth by the UK Census on the wiki, which is > to associate the Source to the Media. This works but seems to me a bit > "indirect" in the way it works: > > 1) Select the individual event > 2) Go to Sources > 3) Open the Source reference > 4) See the "References" tab in the Source > 5) Order it by type and find the Media Object by name > 6) Select the Media Object, open the image > > Maybe this is the best way to do it but I find it odd that I'm not > using the "gallery" tab of the Source which could perhaps provide a > more direct access. If I understood correctly the description of the > Media should be ideally in line with the sourceref Volume/Page field - > I initially named each media like "Birth certificate of Foo" but that > becomes impractical when several different records are in the same > page. Seeing the image buried amongst so many individual events > strikes me as not immediately > > I've thought of adding it to the gallery *in addition* to adding the > sourceref to the Media (linking it to the source) but I tend to do my > best to avoid double-linking information since it becomes very hard to > manage after a while, but maybe in this situation it would help: the > global Source would display the individual pages, much like a book. Is > this something perfectly reasonable or does it raise some objections? > > Any thoughts, critics and ideas greatly appreciated. I'm using GRAMPS > 2.2.10-1 in Fedora 9 and still in the beginning so this is the ideal > time to get as much input as possible :) > > Best regards, > > Frederico Muñoz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-users mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > |