Ron Savage wrote:
The subject is already long enough, but of course I really mean to
include non-GEDCOM-based genealogical data too.
My purpose here is fishing for ideas re all material related to the
subject. And I do emphasis the topic is /managing/ such data.
I can remember a few years ago - when PCs were slower and RAM was much
more limited - of the (my!) machine struggling to cope with the data
file of the European royal family db.
So, what are people using these days?
Also, if there is any compilation of what extras you'd like GEDCOM to
include, tell me.
The short answer is that I'm making a new database program especially suited to
genealogy, and intended to be better for that than any existing one, but it is
also more generic in design so to handle organizing important data for any kind
of research. The target user base is professionals, who would most likely
appreciate what I bring to the table, but it is also intended to be usable by
laypeople. One primary feature is that all kinds of entities, attributes, and
relationships are user-defined. Another is that source citation is recursive,
so you can describe sources in all the flexibility you describe what they way.
The design is somewhat in the middle between a general ontology modeler and a
subject-specialized program; it is more formally structured than a wiki but more
flexible than specific-subject databases. I started working on this back in
1998, but then this work went on hiatus while I first complete my Muldis D
programming language for databases, over which I will implement the research
database application / model. -- Darren Duncan
