stenskjaer/catalogue

Simple catalogue application for storing data about medieval on De anima

catalogue's Issues

Saeculo calculation for before and after dates

Now the date results in a note on the century, but this should also be the case when post and ante quem dates are given.

Examples:

• after = 1276, before = 1314 => saeculo = 13.4-14.1-
• after = 1276?, before = 1314 => saeculo = 13.4?-14.1

How should this sort if there is only a ante quem?

• before 1275 => saeculo -1275 [this would put this over all others in sorting]

Related table for incipits and explicits?

Problem: The same abstract text entity (e.g. Simon, Expositio De anima) can have three witnesses. Each witness is contained in a manuscript (e.g. Leipzig 1359 etc.). The connection between each Manuscript and each witness for the Commentary is indicated by ManuscriptContentCommentary, but then where do we write the incipit and explicit of each witnes? The Manuscript does not have fields for it, and the Incipit and Explicit fields on the Commentary model does not distinguish different witnesses (which may differ slightly).
Should it be added to the ManuscriptContentCommentary-model, a new model or is it superflous since we assume that one unique, unitary text has one and only one (mostly) common incipit and explicit?
The thing is, a given explicit might contain info on the scribe or author of a text that is not common.

Add variant names for Author model

Include also record of name language. Should be made as Inline List with separate model.

Implement generic foreign keys objects with multiple roles

A text can be a commentary, but also be commented on. If the commentary is registered under a different model than the translation (of Aristotle for instance), how do you include the manuscript model as foreign key, when usually the translations function as foreign key in the commentary model field describing what the commentary is on?
Same problem is relevant for the ManuscriptContent model.

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/contenttypes/

Improvement of date system

The curent date system is very unfriendly to querying. It is not possible to search on things such as ranges (1215-1235), before and after fields, and it would be great if it took approximate dates/years into account.

Add datetime fields for creation and modification to models

Add to models Text, Manuscript (others???).

Move from normal to abstract class inheritance in BaseText model

Inspiration: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7108899/using-django-south-to-move-from-concrete-inheritance-to-abstract-inheritance

Add before and after fields to Commentary model

The text should have same type of before and after date fieldds as manuscripts.