[image] How do you manage your research contacts? If I ever learn to program python, the very first thing I would like to add would be a real research panel, where you could make research logs and add contact information, communication and other things thats relevant to the research @StoltHD @…

How are adding “remotely possible” to the confidence levels? Also consider using the something like the .pst email archive format for the correspondence. Being able to directly read & write to it from an email package would open possibilities. Like, enable the thread to be kept alive, rather than k…

[image] cdhorn: Most likely we would need to use Attribute instead of Characteristic and Event instead of Experience because that is what people are used to, but I feel those words better define their intended use. An alternative would be to use the persona model. In this design, you would h…

[image] emyoulation: How are adding “remotely possible” to the confidence levels? It could be added but would be so speculative you should probably not have a subject for it in the conclusion model in the first place. If you have a copy of Anderson’s book reference his definition of it on pa…

[image] cdhorn: Not everyone’s mail is stored in .pst files. Very true. Which is why we have a plugin for database engines too. There are doubtlessly Python libraries for reading & writing most of the more popular eMail client formats. We could choose the one that was the best match to our op…

That is an approach you could take, yes. I think it is not generalized enough and feel like it is better to keep as much ‘flat’ as possible. Although the linkage bundles/dossiers do just that to build up a persona but in a different manner.

[image] cdhorn: A Source is a container for information, a Citation is a reference to information in the container usually in the form of a specific record. They are two different things with different purposes. I know what they are, but as far as I’m concerned, the existing model is inadequa…

@Nick-Hall what do you think about sources and citations?

[image] ennoborg: And that means that the information is NOT contained in the source object, but in the citation. Okay yes I understand your argument. It would make sense to just have a Source object and then some Catalog heirarchy it can belong to within a Repository. The other models do it…

[image] ennoborg: What I mean is that when I copy some text from a record on the web, that was transcribed from a civill registry, or a chuch book, I create a source for the book, and put the page or record number, and the date, in the citation, and the text in a note attached to the citation. A…

[image] cdhorn: It would make sense to just have a Source object and then some Catalog heirarchy it can belong to within a Repository. The other models do it that way, I think Gedcom is the exception. I could be wrong though. I agree, and I saw that in DeadEnds and GEDCOM X. Did you mean thos…

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I have started a separate topic to discuss this:

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