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From: Michael Maggs <Michael@maggs.name>
Date: Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:58 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE
To: "Discussion about the Wikimedia genealogy project." <wikimedia-genealogy@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: John Lubbock <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has been set up on Meta.

I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who would be interested in joining an open source project to create a free platform independent application called History Research Environment [2] (‘HRE’) for the serious genealogist or historical researcher.  Considerable effort has been put into high-level planning over several years, and we are now ready to start writing code.

While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming integrated or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that the software should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to the agreement of the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of structured data including verified and fully sourced family trees.

I'd be happy to answer queries.

Michael Maggs


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project

[2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org

(please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the [wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)

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