A simplified listing of the Record model from rooibos/data/models.py

record example.py

class Record(models.Model):
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    name = models.SlugField(max_length=50, unique=True)
    parent = models.ForeignKey('self', null=True, blank=True)
    source = models.CharField(max_length=1024, null=True, blank=True)
    manager = models.CharField(max_length=50, null=True, blank=True)
    next_update = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
    owner = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True)

# select methods (see actual source for code)

r = Record.objects.get(name='record.name')

r.get_absolute_url()
r.get_thumbnail_url()
r.get_image_url()
r.get_fieldvalues()

Link to source:
https://github.com/cit-jmu/rooibos/blob/6e3b630832d610397ff561f2dfc6c394d12400e5/rooibos/data/models.py#L99