Bruce Whealton: Career, Interests and Values

I’ve been studying and finding an interest in genealogy, aka family tree research, aka finding one’s roots, on and off for a number of years. There are a number of reasons for doing this.

I was first inspired to do this in a class that was part of my Master’s Degree program in Social Work. The geneogram was introduced and it bears much in similarity to the family tree. A geneogram usually includes more or a specific focus on family trends that are passed on from generation to generation and other family dynamics.

In addition, the semantic web technologies are perfectly appropriate and helpful for genealogy, and family tree writing. The word Semantics deals with meanings. In the sense of the semantic web we are looking at embedding meaning into web content so that computers can understand it and work with it.

Popular sites like Ancestry.com and Familypedia.wikia.com
exist for this purpose. The latter is a wiki., that uses the mediawiki software, which also powers Wikipedia.org

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