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  lesana - a collection manager
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+lesana is a python3 library to organize collections of various kinds
+designed to have a data storage / serialization format that is friendly
+to git and other VCSs, but decent performances.
+
+To reach this aim it uses yaml_ as its serialization format, which is
+easy to store in a VCS, share between people and syncronize between
+different computers, but it also keeps an index of this data in a local
+xapian_ database in order to allow for fast searches.
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+.. _yaml: http://yaml.org/
+.. _xapian: https://xapian.org/
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+lesana supports collections of any kind, as long as their entries can be
+described with a mostly flat dictionary of fields of the types described
+in the documentation file ``field_types``.
+
+Some example collection schemas are provided, but one big strenght of
+lesana is the ability to customize your collection with custom fields
+either by simply writing a personalize schema.yaml or, in more complex
+cases, by inheriting from it in another module.