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From: Rafal Prinke <>
Subject: Re: new paradigm - Rafal's site
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 21:55:17 +0100


Luke Stevens <> wrote:

> Way cool. The sluggishness is a little irritating, and the mixture of
> Polish, English, and Latin is just weird, but it really works. With the

The sluggishness probably depends on the time and place you access
it from. Some say it is almost "real time" :-)

> now. But people won't want to invest the time unless it's a real
> database, one that's here to stay and be used for years to come.

That is why it sat silently in a dark corner of cyberspace, waiting
for its time to come... I am willing to invest more work into it
and ensure it will remain there if I know knowledgable people will
cooperate. So I suggest just experimenting with it and only then
decide if it can be improved and made "real".

> I'm not
> sure what you've already got, but the logical starting point is a
> significant chunk of unadulterated ES (which would itself be a valuable
> resource),

That was my point in the recent "consensus" discussion. We should
agree that ES represents the most recent fixing of the consensus
and then start challanging it methodically. Otherwise, there would
be problems _before_ the data reach the Web, and when they reach it
- they will just be another compilation.

> in English,

If you mean the data - then it will be a translation of ES. The problem
of the language of genealogical data remains to be solved.

> confined to an early enough period, say pre-1300,

That's a good idea.

> so that the individuals will mostly fit into people's personal ancestry
> and are not too numerous. If you have that much, you can count me in.

I have to think it over again - but basically I believe it can be built
in steps: when some data is added, that fragment can be posted here
with URL's ready to link for those who want to make comments.

> Your new paradigm would seem to put
> the experts (assuming willing ones could be found) in a more active role
> and the maintainer in a more administrative role, which would be much
> less cumbersome and haphazard, at least once things get going.

I hope so. Thanks for your input.

Best regards,

Rafal

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