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* Form based: The traditional keyboard data entry method. The fields can be fixed or flexible: The former is easier on the developers, the latter more helpful to users, especially if they are inexperienced.
* Import: GRAMPS should be able to import (and export) source data from regular reference managers like [http://www.zotero.org Zotero], [http://pybliographer.org/ Pybliographer], and [http://www.bibtex.org BibTeX]. The Perl code in [http://wwwsourceforge.scripps.edunet/p/~cdputnambibutils/softwarehome/bibutilsBibutils/ BibUtils] could be adapted for to speed development.
* Parsing: It's becoming more common for the large reference websites to provide a ready-made citation on the webpage along with the data or image being presented. (Google Books even offers to download it as a BibTeX file, but that's unfortunately not yet common). It would be very helpful if the user could just paste this citation into a block and GRAMPS took care of parsing it into the appropriate database fields. Experienced users might find typing into the parsing text-entry to be a faster way of inputting source data than using form based input.
