... okay, how does it get recorded in the Atlantian OP? We're actually using the same software, more or less (we were given a copy, which we're adapting for Eastrealm use). This whole project is about taking the East's flat HTML files and turning them into an Atlantian-style DB.
I'd actually planned to have a separate bestowal concept, but decided not to bother when I looked at the DB and couldn't find anywhere that the information could be stored. It's extra work to parse it out -- I need to distinguish between the cases "Queen's Cypher (Elspeth)" vs. "Perseus (Carolingia)", where the very common latter case is describing which *branch* the award comes from. So I'm only going to bother if I can figure out a productive way to represent it in the database. None of the fields jumped out at me as an appropriate place to record bestowal, though.
Mind, I am *also* deriving Court Reports from the existing OP, and the bestowal information is very nearly always implicit from that -- in general, the comment in the Alpha list is usually redundant with the Court Report. But I recognize that there are probably exceptions (especially for out-Kingdom awards), and I'm open to populating that if I can figure out where it's supposed to go...
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I'd actually planned to have a separate bestowal concept, but decided not to bother when I looked at the DB and couldn't find anywhere that the information could be stored. It's extra work to parse it out -- I need to distinguish between the cases "Queen's Cypher (Elspeth)" vs. "Perseus (Carolingia)", where the very common latter case is describing which *branch* the award comes from. So I'm only going to bother if I can figure out a productive way to represent it in the database. None of the fields jumped out at me as an appropriate place to record bestowal, though.
Mind, I am *also* deriving Court Reports from the existing OP, and the bestowal information is very nearly always implicit from that -- in general, the comment in the Alpha list is usually redundant with the Court Report. But I recognize that there are probably exceptions (especially for out-Kingdom awards), and I'm open to populating that if I can figure out where it's supposed to go...