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**There are two kinds of dates:**
- _Evidence dates_ should be represented as the date string in the document and a calendar enum. Anything else is a conclusion. In many cases even the calendar enum i…
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I've tried and tried, but I can't get my head around the concept of an Attribution.
Definition: "The Attribution data type defines the data structure used to attribute who, when, and why to genealogi…
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As first noted by [Tamura Jones](http://www.tamurajones.net/GEDCOMXConverter.xhtml) and repeated in #134, GedcomX produces files which, even after compression, are several times larger than the Gedcom…
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Living is currently both an attribute of a Person and also a Fact Type. Since it must have a date in order to be of any value I believe the living fact type is more accurate and the living attribute/f…
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There exists today a way to use the EE certainty vocabulary to say things like:
- User A thinks Image B is _Certainly_ the source of Record C.
- User X thinks Persona Y is _Possibly_ a source for (con…
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I realise the infinite flexibility of inheriting everything from a Resource and hence allowing it to be considered a source but this also makes for infinite complexity and infinite nonsense!
To allow…
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The "Preferred" flag assumes that there is a single preference but does not allow for:
(a) instances where conflicting hypotheses may be of equal validity (and hence need further research to prove on…
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[Analysis of the GEDCOM X file format](http://familysearch.github.com/gedcomx/2012/07/03/file-format-jeers-cheers.html) shows that the ZIP file format is significantly inefficient under certain scenar…
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Over on https://github.com/gittip/shields.io/issues/15 you'll see that Gittip has acquired Shields, as far as @olivierlacan and I are concerned. However, in the spirit of openness and transparency, I'…
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I love how gedcomx is generally based on modern formats and api approaches. But I'm struck in [GEDCOM X: File Format](http://www.gedcomx.org/File-Format.html) by the use of the ancient MIME format, w…