richardlehane / siegfried

signature-based file format identification
http://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried
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Remove source field from Wikidata results (#2) #162

Closed ross-spencer closed 3 years ago

ross-spencer commented 3 years ago

Removing one of the two ways of displaying source (provenance) information in the Wikidata result simplifies the Siegfried source code and makes it easier to maintain.

The basis field could show provenance if explicitly selected by the user. The source field would show the provenance of binary signatures in a separate field -- inline, vs. separate field.

We elected to remove the source field, at least, for now, as it was difficult to align the information in it with that of the sf basis field. Where the basis field can hold other information without provenance in its list and not necessarily at the same 'list' indices.

The -sourceinline flag is removed as well as alternative branches through the code for a separate source field.

Connected to https://github.com/ross-spencer/WikiDP-Issues/issues/4