From: Jérôme <rom...@ya...> - 2012-06-18 09:30:41
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Enno, There is also a page on wiki which shows some samples on 'events table' use and related references or outputs! http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Events_manager Gramps can already use a record like model based on event/source because it is not dependant of family or person centric models... Example: 1. a group of persons with ancestors who immigrated to USA create an association/society. 2. they have a dns and install 'gramps-connect' (or gramps via cli!) 3. multiple accounts and worldwide events/sources/media/notes/persons/families tables editions 4. they share some records which are common and find some relations => they can extract events for generating an index of common and shared events (or sources) with related references (persons/families). It seems that Cumberland Family Tree program was also able to go further than old gedcom basics with events by ordering/sorting them by group. As said, Gramps is able to share events since many years and do not need any person or family record for editing an event. :) Once I have read that new gedcom concepts cannot go too far too quickly because windows programs or web applications are not ready (database design), then this did not make sense to still slow down any development for this reason... It may be naive, but they use more energy for trying to communicate that to provide solutions! See Michiel's scripts http://members.tele2.nl/m.d.nauta/typeless_data_entry/typeless_data_entry.html Much more modestly, I tested the validation (syntax and content) of Gramps XML file, and a rapid transformation in local (or via server). http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lxml_Gramplet Note, to re-use Michiel's scripts can also work! True, we could also try to generate a 'GrampsXML2gedcomx.xslt' but as you said, gedcomx/bettergedcom (draft) are 'in progress'... Also, to use java makes things harder, even if Oracle seems behind gedcomx project! Jérôme Gary Burton a écrit : > Hello Enno > > > >> Sounds sensible, and I sincerely hope that shared events can be >> introduced in Gramps some time. That's because I have always thought >> that it's strange that most software still thinks that all events are >> individual. I mean, most births list at least two known persons, and >> most certificates list three or more, and the same goes for death >> certificates which very often mention spouses. And for me the most >> annoying single person event is residence, since that one is also very >> often about whole family groups, like censuses. >> >> And IMO, most of this can probably be part of GEPS 024: > > Gramps has had shared events for quite some time. An event is shared between people using an event reference. > > Bye > > Gary > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > |