The Gedcom standard handles simple citations quite well. For published material, the source record contains fields for author, title, abbreviation and publication information. The source-citation allows any key-value pairs to be stored in the PAGE tag. This makes citations quite flexible. For un…

[image] GeorgeWilmes: Yes, but in the case of the FamilySearch “collection” of Ontario Roman Catholic church records in the example above, the original records are still at the individual parishes (at least, that’s what it says in the catalog entry for my example). In other cases they might be i…

[image] ennoborg: I saw the collection in the form of a large number of drawers with films. This means that it actually exists No, I don’t mean the original microfilms, I mean the original paper records. In my example, the catalog entry says “original records in possession of the Purification…

[image] GeorgeWilmes: Also note that the catalog entry says that some of those records are not the originals either: “Early records reconstructed after destruction in 1765.” I know that, and I looked at them, but I didn’t find my ancestor in it, because I was unable to read that old German sc…

[image] Nick-Hall: We could allow users to construct catalogue hierarchies within Gramps. This could be useful to organise sources. If an external archive had an online catalogue which conformed to the ISAD(G) standard, we may even be able to import catalogues or parts of them of interest to a …

[image] ennoborg: Do you know any archive that has such a catalogue? The Discovery online catalogue from The National Archives in the UK is ISAD(G) compliant. I think the results are returned in EAD XML. See also the Adoption section in the ISAD(G) wiki page. I was just pointing out that i…

[image] Nick-Hall: I was just pointing out that if an archive catalogue followed such a standard then it would be fairly easy to import entries. There are likely to be usage limits, so I’m not sure how it would work on a practical level. OK, I understand, and today I found a message on a loca…

I’ve updated my pull request. The plugins can now define citation variables which can be entered using the citation editor. I’ve created a simple example plugin called “Template” which defines the variables page, url and accessed. A formatted citation of the form <page> (<url> accessed <accessed>)…

Is there a way that I might be able to record a Bibliography under a Source book? I might also want to use if to flag which Primary References I should be trying to access at a repository. In this way, we might be able to flag how far distant a citation is away from a primary source. And determin…

Just tried the AnyStyle online citation parser ( Ruby based) by Sylvester Keil with surprisingly good (not anywhere near perfect) results. It generates CSL-JSON, XML, and BibTeX uses this license 'all rights reserved, distribution with license". So you might want to look at the webpage example, n…

Here’s a sample chunk of an amateur bibliography I had lying around to run through their parser via copy & paste. Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla – History of the Kings of Norway; University of Texas Press, Austin, 1964. Swenson, Viggo. Zion's Storied Windows; Zion Lutheran Church, Harrisburg PA, 1…

Sources and Citations: some thoughts

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StoltHD November 27, 2022, 1:44am 64

Maybe this site will be of interest for you: https://zbib.org/

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