Dallan- I just got back from doing booth duty at OSBC and ran into Ransom Love (of Caldera/SCO fame) who is now working at the church. My understanding is that the church is planning on doing a website very similar to yours (and they also want to open source it, hence the recent job posting for os evangelism...).
Are you familiar with what the church is doing here? Are there any overlaps/differences? As an (open source) software developer I sense NIH going on... matt (I met you a briefly couple years ago in PA2, funny that we cross paths again...) On 2/10/06, Dallan Quass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's all open source and open content so what you want to do would be easy. > I haven't made anything publically accessible yet because I want to spend > the next month working out any bugs (in the software and the data), but I > expect to make everything publically accessible by the end of March. > > Adding sync is a good suggestion. MediaWiki has some support for RSS feeds > and even OAI-PMH. I'll have to check more into this. > > -dallan > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Stay > > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:13 AM > > To: 'LDS Open Source Software' > > Subject: RE: [Ldsoss] Feedback request > > > > How easy is this to cobrand? I'd love to take this and put > > it on my own server, and host it just for my extended family > > to encourage collaboration between family members. Perhaps > > beyond this, a sync action would be good to allow a family > > member to then push out the family's data to werelate.org and > > update the data there for all to see. > > > > Jesse > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dallan Quass > > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:17 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Ldsoss] Feedback request > > > > Hello, > > > > I just launched a website for genealogy - www.werelate.org. > > It is part search engine and part wiki. The overall goal is > > to help people discover and share information about their > > ancestors online. The website is in what I would call an > > "alpha" state right now, meaning there is some fine tuning > > needed on the look and feel and I'm sure there are a number > > of bugs, but it is to the point where I'm interested in > > criticisms of the ideas, suggestions for new features, bug > > reports, etc. It's sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line > > Genealogy, a not-for-profit organization I co-founded earlier > > this year. It's all open source, both content and software. > > > > If you decide to look at it, please don't edit any pages yet > > (or more specifically, don't expect your edits to "stick"). > > I'm soliciting feedback during the coming weeks on systemic > > problems with the data, at which point I'll fix them and reload. > > > > If anyone is interested, I'd love to get feedback on how the > > website could be improved. Help on creating/editing content > > or development and administration would also be appreciated. > > I started working on this at the beginning of last year > > because I wanted to do something interesting and help out in > > the area of genealogy. I don't expect to ever get a salary from it. > > > > The website is composed of four major sections: > > > > (1) Search: search genealogy-relevant web pages for names, > > places, and keywords. You can elect to include related names > > in your search, which causes searches on John Smith for > > example to return pages containing Jonathan Smythe. The > > index currently includes about 5M pages, but that number will > > increase over time. The ultimate goal for search is to point > > people to information regardless of its location, whether on > > static web pages, behind forms, or in offline books and microfilms. > > > > (2) Names: this section lists related names and possible > > misspellings for given and surnames. It has been created > > using a combination of manual data entry and a > > weighted-edit-distance algorithm. As far as I know it is the > > largest such list publically available. > > > > (3) Places: this section contains what I believe is the > > largest database of historic places currently available > > online. It integrates data from Wikipedia, the Getty > > Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and the Family History Library > > Catalog. It currently has places for North and South > > America, Europe, and Australia/NZ. Africa, Asia, and the > > rest of Oceania should be up soon. > > > > (4) Resources: this section lists websites and microfilms > > that are relevant to genealogy. Currently it includes about > > 400K websites and online message boards that we've come > > across and roughly 1M microfilms from the LDS Church. > > Search (section 1) performs searches over the pages on these > > resources. > > > > Sections 2-4 are wiki's, with the idea that people can > > improve them over time. I'm hoping to get feedback over the > > next several months on how to make the website more helpful. > > > > -dallan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ldsoss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ldsoss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
