From: guylinton <guy...@gm...> - 2008-09-21 21:27:12
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Frederico, I had many of the same questions. I agree that it is usually best to try to make any tool work “as intended”. However, in this case as there seem to be many ways to use the tool, I thought I should try to do the basic data analysis for my data, and see the ‘best’ way to represent this, and then see whether this was nicely supported. Like you, I am starting from a particular set of data, in my case the UK census records. I think that the ‘multiple pages per source’ is the best representation of the data. (Actually, each sourceref is the record for one household, rather than strictly one page, but the principle is the same and it is clearer to carry on talking about ‘multiple pages per source’). As I understand it, sourcerefs can be shared, so in the case of: > finding multiple instances. Say you have many refs to "Achive X vol.3, > p.9". You want to change these to "Archive Y, vol.2". How do you find > the references as a group? If there is only one sourceref to that particular page and the sourceref is shared, then you only need to find one to change the details. I use drag and drop to copy sourcerefs from one place to another, and this seems to work well. It seems to me that the features of gramps support ‘multiple pages per source’ very nicely, except for two particular problems: (1) sourceref is not a first class object, so it does not have a tab on the main window from which you can find all the sourcerefs, and thence details of each (2) a sourceref cannot point to a particular media. (I agree that if the sourceref could point to the particular part of the image in the source that applied to this sourceref (as Benny suggests), then it would not be necessary to have the media as a property of the sourceref). I think that it would be very nice if Gramps could be enhanced to do both these things. I am trying to construct an example to show the data analysis that I have done and how this is supported at present in Gramps, and when I have done so, I will follow it up with a feature request in the bugs database! (I did raise this before: http://www.nabble.com/Media-and-attributes-in-data-model-for-Gramps-3.0-td13868204.html#a13868783 and Benny’s view was that it might cause problems to have information in the sourceref, hence why I am trying to produce a better analysis and example before asking again.) I agree that a sourceref in the image seems to be doing things the wrong way round. (The sourceref points from the information I know to the source for that information. The image is not actually the information I know from the source – it actually IS the source! If the image were a family tree, then I might add a sourceref to point to the source I used when I drew that tree, but this is not the situation we are talking about.) Regards, Tim. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Sources%2C-media-and-galleries%3A-how-to-tie-it-all-up-%22as-intended%22-tp19437699p19598653.html Sent from the GRAMPS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |