Add a field to identify if a Source is a printed book or a manuscript

[lucasmarchd01]

This should be a checkmark or dropdown for printed.

[ahankinson]

I would make it an IntegerField with two choices, 1 = Manuscript, 2 = Printed.

(Don't do 0 because that's Falsey in Python, and liable to cause all sorts of problems.)

Here's how we define a similar field in DIAMM:

https://github.com/diamm/diamm/blob/main/diamm/models/data/source.py#L20-L37

And the actual field:

https://github.com/diamm/diamm/blob/main/diamm/models/data/source.py#L56

You can also have a default= argument, so you might do something like:

MANUSCRIPT = 1
PRINTED = 2

SOURCE_TYPE_CHOICES = (
  (MANUSCRIPT, "Manuscript"),
  (PRINTED, "Printed"),
)

source_type = models.IntegerField(default=MANUSCRIPT, choices=SOURCE_TYPE_CHOICES)

[dchiller]

@annamorphism What would you call this in the user display? The best I've come up with so far is "production method"

[fujinaga]

"Source type"? "Document type" ?

[annamorphism]

@annamorphism What would you call this in the user display? The best I've come up with so far is "production method"

That's not a bad name, actually...

[annamorphism]

or maybe it could just be Manuscript/Print in the same way there is Full Source/Fragmented?

[dchiller]

maybe it could just be Manuscript/Print

True...one implication of the way we've set up the field is that other options could be added in the future (if we wanted) ... but for now there are only the two so this is probably the clearest way to go.

[annamorphism]

maybe it could just be Manuscript/Print

True...one implication of the way we've set up the field is that other options could be added in the future (if we wanted) ... but for now there are only the two so this is probably the clearest way to go.

Ah--yes it could be interesting to be able to include things like stenciled sources or mixed-production sources...but mayeb that's a problem for the future.

[dchiller]

Ah--yes it could be interesting to be able to include things like stenciled sources or mixed-production sources...but mayeb that's a problem for the future.

Yeah, I was picturing stenciling too as a future possibility. For now, I'll display it as Manuscript/Printed but we can go back in future and add more choices to the field and change the display name if/when that becomes useful.