As it happens, both my wife and I were members of Bob Velke's original
development team for TMG in one of Dick Eastman's back rooms at CompuServe
in the early '90s. (That's how we first met, in fact.) If this project is
meant to function as a full-dress desktop application for recording
genealogical research -- perhaps among other, more general types of
historical research -- I would be very interested. I've just spent some
time browsing through the info at the website you linked to and I've
already begun making a list of comments and points to consider.
I've been doing this stuff since the early '60s, before I even did my first
history degree, so all my original family research was
pencil-and-clipboard. I still do "regular" history research, mostly of the
local history variety -- but, to be honest, I've never needed software for
that. Still just a pencil and clipboard, with the addition of a digital
camera a decade ago.
Michael K. Smith
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Michael Maggs <Michael(a)maggs.name> wrote:
There has been quite bit of discussion over the years
about how the
Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in
family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has been
set up on Meta.
I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who would
be interested in joining an open source project to create a free platform
independent application called History Research Environment [2] (‘HRE’) for
the serious genealogist or historical researcher. Considerable effort has
been put into high-level planning over several years, and we are now ready
to start writing code.
While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia
project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming integrated
or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that the software
should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to the agreement of
the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of structured data
including verified and fully sourced family trees.
I'd be happy to answer queries.
Michael Maggs
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project
[2]
https://historyresearchenvironment.org
(please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the
[wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)
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