Now that the v5.2 has been released it may be time to start some discussions. I’ll list a few topics that may be of interest:
- How should we handle multi-layer citations?
- What is the best way to store citation urls and access timestamps?
- Do we want to support the Gedcom non-event structure?
- Should conflicting evidence be stored as multiple events or maybe use attributes or some other method?
- Do we want to introduce a persona concept (Gedcom ALIA tags)?
- How do we want to model ships? As places or a new object type?
- Would time dependent facts be useful? If so, should they be distinct from attributes?
The answers to these questions could affect the best practices that we recommend.
There is also the bigger question. How close do we want to keep to the Gedcom standard?
We probably want to start several topics to discuss these.