Concept information
Preferred term
NORTHERN GENEALOGIES
Definition
- The goal of the proposed project is to develop a publicly available electronic informational system, which will be filled with ethnodemographic and genealogical data from variety of sources pertaining to the Saami, Nenets, Enets, Selkup, Nganasan, Teleut, Kumandin, Uilta, Shor and several other peoples of Siberia and the Russian North. This data will cover the period from the 16/17th c. to the present. The system will consist of a database coupled with a web-based interface performing the task of interaction with specially developed server-side modules, which pass queries to the database, and receive and present results to the user. The typical queries, which will require special modules, will be for instance, search for descendants or antecedents of a given person; or grouping of persons according to some criteria, such as given type of sanguineous marriage, economic specialisation, principles ruling the formation of households, etc. The proposed system does not include any special client-side applications, since the information exchange with users will involve only already existing programmes. The result of a query will be presented to the user in one of the following standard formats at his/her option: 1. ordinary, browser-independent web-page (HTML); 2. CSV file, which is suitable for import into any spreadsheet application (MS Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc, etc.), or into specialised statistical packages (e.g. SPSS), as well as for transfer of data into another database system; 3. GEDCOM, a standard format for exchange of genealogical data, suitable for use with such products as GenoPro for creation of visual representations and printing of genealogical data, and for processing with tools designed network analysis, e.g. Pajek or PGRAPH. The participants of the project have already gathered considerable amount of personal demographic data pertaining to different peoples, territories and periods of time. We chose to use as model the data arrays on the Saami, Yugan Khanty, Mansi, several groups of Samoyed and Sayan-Altai Turkic peoples, and Uilta. Therefore, the already available materials pertain to the ethnic groups, which significantly vary in their economy, social organisation and history. The collected data originates from all types of historical and contemporary sources that are needed for development of the proposed information system. These arrays of data, being collected in different regions, not always cover the same periods of time. There are also chronological lacunae in some arrays due to the time framework of previous research programmes. Therefore, those lacunae will be filled with the results of field and archival research within the framework of this project. Summary provided by http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=285 (en)
Broader concept
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URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/f44594af-434d-4f22-b1cf-382d1b021f31
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