On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Justin Findlay wrote:
On 3/6/06, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How great is our charge. It will take nothing less than the best from
all of us.
Related to my last post, I shudder to think we're going to have to do
this with GEDCOM, ugh. (-:
So when do we get the Real Soon Now brand new client? I don't care if
it's alpha, as long as it's open source and I can submit bug reports.
If you're refencing the new Family Tree system, you already have the
client! It's called IE, or Opera, or Firefox, or Safari :-).
From what I understand the project has entered a second beta, in which
they are targeting folks who haven't done much family history work in the
past, I imagine, to get a feel for how effective the new system is in the
hands of those who may have been less inclined to do family history work
previously. One of the aims of the new system is to vastly simplify the
process by which names are cleared for temple work (Wahoo!).
My undestanding is that the data in the system will be exposed in some
fashion via a web services API. So if you have problem with the interface
provided by the church you can implement your own in whichever language
you would like, or if you have a cool idea about how to use this
data to create a tool never before imagined by anyone at the church, that
should also be theoretically possible.
I imagine once the software goes live (and if you're in Utah, the
earliest estimates I have heard are late this year, and possibly sometime
next), there will be official mechanisms by which we can submit bug
reports and feature requests. One report I read also indicated that the
project would be open-sourced.
Now, the Web Services API, and the open-sourcedness of the project, I read
about in a blog entry by someone who saw a presentation about the system.
I would like to get 'official' (or even semi-official) word from a church
representative, that such is going to be the case, so I can stop spreading
such rumours, if such is not the case :-).
Hope this info helps. If you look in the list archives, I've posted a few
links to blog entries that provide a lot more detail about the new system.
In my opinion, it's a very exciting time for family history work. As the
church continues to refine and finish this Family Tree system, as well as
continue on its efforts to digitize and provide online access to the
contents of the Granite Mountain vault, we will be entering an era of
unprecedented accessibility to genealogical data. Personally, I start to
salivate when I think of being able to keyword-search across the 2
million+ microfilms currently in the vault. We've only seen the proverbial
'tip of the iceberg' in what's possible.
-- Dan
Justin
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