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* Most of the major commercial genealogy programs use a proprietary relational schema for storage of citation data. These fall into two broad categories, binary (similar to GRAMPS's key/value schema, where a citation is composed of several records each having a key/value pair and the program's logic parses the keys to display the citation in the desired format), single-table (where a database tuple is defined which contains the maximum needed fields, each of which is assigned a value according to a parsing scheme in the programs logic), and multiple-table, where different citation types are stored in tables with tuple schema which reflect the requirements of each. As so often in programming, each has costs and benefits with respect to
John Yates has, with Mills's permission, encoded the elements of the specific examples in Evidence Explained: [http://jytangledweb.org/genealogy/evidencestyle/ Two Computer Ready Parametrizations of "Evidence Style" Historical Sources].
* [http://catalogue.bnf.fr/jsp/recherchemots_simple.jsp?host=catalogue French national library]
=Workflow Needed =We need for this# fix of [http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2332]bug 2332# convert [http://jytangledweb.org/genealogy/evidencestyle/evidence_style.ods] to format usable in Gramps, so sourcetypes, source attribute types, ..., and business logic Evidence (no templates needed, all business logic)# Store data in source object# Adapt GUI to allow Evidence style sources input. Is a database change needed? Don't think so at the moment. =Old data of GEP =
==Entering source information ==
