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]]> By: Mike http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/genealogy-blog-determining-what-features-i-want-in-my-blog/#comment-913935 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:01:18 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1044#comment-913935 The MIT SIMILE Exhibit project shows examples. One example that is particularly interesting is using Exhibit (with extensions) to create Genealogy pedigrees, maps, and timelines based on information stored at WeRelate.org The Exhibit extensions are documented at http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/User:Dallan

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/genealogy-blog-determining-what-features-i-want-in-my-blog/#comment-913533 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:25:53 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1044#comment-913533 Honestly, everyone is using WordPress right now and it will work with static files and integrate with everything else. The issue is that people want to control EVERYTHING through the WordPress Administration Panels and have WordPress make their life easier. Right now, while work is in progress to make that a true statement, everything else is hand coding work. So dig in and learn how to blog and get that rocking with the information, stories, photos, videos, podcasts, interviews, and preserving and spreading the information you have on your family history research.

The rest will come naturally. :D

]]> By: Mike http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/genealogy-blog-determining-what-features-i-want-in-my-blog/#comment-913529 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:41:03 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1044#comment-913529 Thanks for the compliment. I’m still in the planning stages. I consider myself very new to the panoply of resources and technology. If people have experiences or reviews of how these things work together: such as the WordPress and phpGEDView plugin, or the WordPress and MIT Exhibit/Timeline combination, I’d love to see those. Any leads or URL’s?

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/genealogy-blog-determining-what-features-i-want-in-my-blog/#comment-913513 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:05:56 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1044#comment-913513 I do hope you’ve already started your blog because you have tremendous information and resources to share with the genealogy community. :D

]]> By: Mike http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/genealogy-blog-determining-what-features-i-want-in-my-blog/#comment-913508 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:49:59 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1044#comment-913508 I mentioned MIT’s Timeline and Exhibit open source software. They have documented how authors can use Exhibit in WordPress blogs. Their documentationalso tells how to combine or provide alternate views of the same data, say, Exhibit’s mapping feature, and Timeline’s clickable chronology, then use Exhibit as a container for Timeline. This is part of the reason that the documentation for Timeline is specific to Timeline only. The documentation for Exhibit gives you the way to present Timelines when you want to use the same dataset and do two or more things with it. Look at the Presidents example for inspiration. It shows a timeline, map with photos, and let’s you limit what is diplayed based on religion and other facts. This type of thing could be especially helpful family history and genealogy. The Exhibit documentation has many tools and methods to convert existing data formats (such as MS excel spreadsheets, and tab separated lists) to source for the Exhibit and Timeline presentations.

Maybe someone in the Genealogy world will write a converter specifically for the most popular genealogy data file formats.

]]> By: Mike http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/genealogy-blog-determining-what-features-i-want-in-my-blog/#comment-913405 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:11:56 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1044#comment-913405 I view blogging-supported genealogy/family history projects as something closely akin to Digital Museums and Digital Libraries. We have basic information (family trees, dates, events, etc.), artifacts (photos, oral history, maps, family bibles, etc.) and a story to tell, put in context, and interpret. Ultimately, we could create, share, and participate in interactive exhibits and family histories by combining tools we have available today.

I would ultimately like to see something that combines the flexibility and community aspect of WordPress blogging, with genealogy data structures of PHPGedView , combined with open source digital library software like GreenStone , filled with archival quality digital content tagged/indexed with something like open source dSpace and EAD DTD . This would be a gift to future generations that would be awesome.

US Library of Congress has a Digital Library Initiative that has set forth an excellent summary of 10 Challenges when approaching this task from the perspective of a library or archive.

The United Nations has the Memory of the World Programme with a similar slant on trying to preserve, catalog, and improve appreciation and access to cultural heritage. The Documents and resources section lists several useful guides and papers including one on digitizing photographs that has links to many useful websites and resources . – Mike

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/genealogy-blog-determining-what-features-i-want-in-my-blog/#comment-913304 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:53:28 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1044#comment-913304 Awesome. I’ll look into this. Thank you so much.

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