FamilySearch/gedcomx — Issue #144: In need of a Source object
Author: EssyGreen
Created: 2012-02-19 09:46:40+00:00
State: open

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, for example, a DatePart to be used as evidence is nonsensical. Theoretically we could cite millions of documents with a DatePart of "Day=1" but it means absolutely nothing without the wider context of the Date, which means nothing without the wider context of the Fact.

I think we need a definite Source object (probably equating, or similar, to the Record) and it is this (not the Resource) which should be referenced in Citations and used in Evidence.