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Subject: RE: [APG] Name Registry?
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:01:37 -0800 (PST)
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> Thanks Valorie.
>
> Listed below are the input techniques I suggested in my first message.
> If you have some better ideas about how to interact with the web site,
> I'd like to hear about them.
>
> 1. [Manual] Enter the information on a web site and requesting
> generation of an identifier.

I've been mulling this over. Seem like this would be the slow way to go;
but on the other hand, people might like to try it for a few common
ancestors, to see how it would work for them.

> 2. [Automatic] Submit a GEDCOM file to the web site and request
> identifiers for all qualified individuals in the file. (This might
> require some degree of user interaction when individuals already in the
> registry seem to match individuals in the file.)

Do you have an automatic way to analyze and extract the information?
Because this would be the way to go. Auto-upload, analysis, extraction,
and output.

<snip>

> I suppose I also need to provide a way to synchronize two GEDCOM files
> using the pre-assigned identifiers. If your genealogy program doesn't
> have built-in support for numbering, it probably can't do
> synchronization either. Duh!

That sounds useful.

> The service I'm proposing *could* generate identifiers without saving
> the name and birth data for the individuals. However, I feel it would be
> useful to keep this the data for supplemental purposes. Because the
> information would be publicly accessible, I had recommended limiting the
> repository to people born prior to 1900. Other security concerns
> welcomed!

Wouldn't it be good, if a GEDCOM were being uploaded and analyzed, for the
checking to be done at that point against the database? Then the info for
the possible matching individuals could be displayed to the uploader for
comparison. The decision as to whether the individual in question was the
same, would be up to them.

<snip>

> Please let me know which data input technique you think is best.

It would be good to have a choice to do it one by one, or in bulk
(GEDCOM). Then people could try out the process with an individual or two.

Valorie


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