Kinsources
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http://kinsource.net Started in November 2008 with some actual content that stems from the Kintip Website - Traitement informatique de la parenté, Kinship and Computing project.
See particularly the page for discussing the documentation needed for datasets -- Mike Fischer.
[edit] Not to be confused with
http://www.kinsource.com/index.htm
[edit] How does it work?
Subject: Re: Turkish Nomads to Kinsources From: "Michael Fischer" <m.d.fischer@kent.ac.uk> Date: Sat, June 6, 2009 1:14 am To: Douglas.White@uci.edu
Hi
Right now I think you should put the data set up as is with enough documentation to use the data set and without losing any information. You don't have to put the metadata in all at once ... you can always come back to add more (and more versions for that matter). I don't want to standardise on a lossy and inflexible format like GEDCOM. So just put it up. If there is a problem with the current submission process or advice to make it easier please let me know so I can fix it (it was 'fixed' several times last year when we first started entering data).
What I think we want to aim at is accepting data in whatever format it comes in, and having online conversion software from one type to another (to the extent this is possible). I am thinking this would consist of being able to translate each format into a schema based on my current XML format (xkin), which is extensible both by embedding (incorporating new data structures within a data component) and with component structures (similar to defining a concatenation of a net file with a clu file), and then from that to the desired output form, like gedcom or net. There are currently three components in my own xkin files, node set(s), edge set(s) and metadata members of which can have many types. Once I get exams out of the way (I am Chief Examiner, a job which probably makes no sense elsewhere, but means I am maximally busy for the next two weeks) I will put the xkin specification on the site for comment and amendment.
Later
Mike
