It's about time that some of them looked at functionality rather than mere gloss. I was getting fed up of revamped UIs (which invariably were slower, and sometimes less usable) when there was a host of functional improvements that could - and should - be made. I almost suspect there aren't many genealogists in the Project Management departments ;-)
Justin, to declare your online site 'Inconsistent Genealogy Free Zone' does indeed have impact on the growth of the site. And I don't know if the big quality improvement makes up for this entirely.
Denying inconsistent data is a big step for me too. For now I'm automatically checking all submitted GEDCOM's when they get published on Genealogie Online, and I show the warnings and errors (distinction build in after Tamura's article) cleary to both author and visitors. See for example https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-been-feenstra/I264.php
I plugged Tamura's article on my forum and several commented that archives and organisations publishing source material should also be implementing consistency checks. And of course they're right!
It's about time that some of them looked at functionality rather than mere gloss. I was getting fed up of revamped UIs (which invariably were slower, and sometimes less usable) when there was a host of functional improvements that could - and should - be made. I almost suspect there aren't many genealogists in the Project Management departments ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt's possible that they're targeting the larger market of the average person instead of the small genealogist market.
ReplyDeleteJustin, to declare your online site 'Inconsistent Genealogy Free Zone' does indeed have impact on the growth of the site. And I don't know if the big quality improvement makes up for this entirely.
ReplyDeleteDenying inconsistent data is a big step for me too. For now I'm automatically checking all submitted GEDCOM's when they get published on Genealogie Online, and I show the warnings and errors (distinction build in after Tamura's article) cleary to both author and visitors. See for example https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-been-feenstra/I264.php
I plugged Tamura's article on my forum and several commented that archives and organisations publishing source material should also be implementing consistency checks. And of course they're right!