Hi Michael
Yes, indeed, that's exactly the intention. We hope to end up with a
much-enhanced and platform-independent replacement for TMG.
If you could make yourself and your experience known via the link on
this page
Michael Smith
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24 May 2017 at 6:20 pm
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.
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Michael Maggs <mailto:Michael@maggs.name>
24 May 2017 at 3:58 pm
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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