Re: handling roles or positions

On 05/08/2023 10:12, Tim Dudgeon wrote:
> I've now come across a need for a system that can track and manage 
> historical information, of which descendancy is an important part,
> but there are other aspects that are equally important, and I've not
> found a good way to do this in gramps. Am I missing something or are
> there better tools to handle this?
A non-Gramps solution would be to use TEI XML. This is a dialect of XML 
designed explicitly for historical as well as literary markup.

> As an example, let's consider the kings and queens of England. It
> would be relatively straightforward to create a family tree (or
> trees!) to describe the descendancy aspect, but what about the role
> or position of monarch. 

Normally TEI XML is used for creating electronic editions of old texts, 
but its customisable tagset means it could easily be used to carry a 
hierarchical descendancy structure as well as all the ancillary 
information you describe (dates and ranges, timelines, roles, positions, 
etc)

The TEI-L mailing list ([email protected]) is full of a lot of 
people with historical expertise who can probably get you started.

Peter


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