Re: [Gramps-devel] FormedInput

[Gary B. <bur...@ya...>]

Hello Benny,=0A=0AI'm currently moving over to Gramps from something called=
 'Family Historian'. It's a Windows application that I run with wine on Deb=
ian GNU/Linux. Another Family Historian user wrote a utility called Gedcom =
Census (google for it) which works with the gedcom files that Family Histor=
ian uses (FH does not use a database, it only reads/writes gedcom files) to=
 provide formed input for census data.=0A=0AIt presents a form broadly simi=
lar to a census page where the data from the census can be entered. The uti=
lity lets you put in the census year, place, address etc, then an entry for=
 each person which includes their name, age, occupation, place of birth. Th=
e utility allows you to select people and places that are present in the ge=
dcom file.=0A=0AWhen the census data is written back to the gedcom file, it=
 creates a source for the census entry, then for each person, a census even=
t (containing the census location and person's age as an attribute), birth =
event (if one does not already exist) and an occupation event.=0A=0AThis ap=
proach makes entering the large amount of data present on the census a much=
 quicker process than having to create all these separate events by hand. T=
he same approach could be extended to other types of information such as bi=
rth, marriage, death certificates and equivalent church data such as baptis=
ms and burials.=0A=0AI think the problem would come in trying to generalise=
 things so that they would work with different types of documents in differ=
ent countries. For example an English census page is different to a French =
one, no doubt.=0A=0AGary=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: "benny.ma=
le...@ug..." <ben...@ug...>=0ATo: Alex Roitman <shura@gram=
ps-project.org>=0ACc: ben...@ug...; Gramps developers <gramps-d=
ev...@li...>=0ASent: Tuesday, 12 December, 2006 8:34:56 AM=
=0ASubject: Re: [Gramps-devel] FormedInput=0A=0AQuoting Alex Roitman <shura=
@gramps-project.org>:=0A=0A> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 23:48 +0100, benny.malen=
gi...@ug... wrote:=0A>> I have starting ordening my thoughts about input =
via forms.=0A>> As I have little time for ICR (and outside the timezone), t=
he text is on the=0A>> wiki: http://developers.gramps-project.org/tiki-inde=
x.php?page=3DFormedInput=0A>>=0A>> Before fleshing out this idea, do you pe=
ople see anything in this =0A>> idea? I know,=0A>> few developers with litt=
le time, however, I'm not asking to do this feature=0A>> now, just on your =
thoughts about it. Some people here have far more =0A>> experience=0A>> wit=
h genealogy, other programs, and what has been tried before in GRAMPS.=0A>=
=0A> This is an awesome idea. I don't know how feasible this is :-)=0A=0AI'=
m happy you like it=0AFunny thing is, I gave quite a rant against shared no=
tes (I still think my=0Apoints were good), but for this idea a shared note =
would actually be an easy=0Away of organising/grouping all input done with =
a form. Although this grouping=0Acould of course also be done with another =
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