data science for myfamilysearch.org dr. brand niemann director and senior data scientist/data...
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Data Science for MyFamilySearch.org
Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist/Data Journalist
Semantic CommunityMy Personal Family History Dashboard
My LDS.orgMy Stories and Lessons
January 26, 2015
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Overview
• Data Science for MyFamilySearch.org:– Site Map to MindTouch and Notes (see below).
• MyTableBox of MyFamily Tree:– Big Data is all of your content as data before you for action in a
REST with Hypermedia Platform.• Notes on Sections (sample):
– My MindTouch Platform is based on a REST architecture and Hyermedia that integrates web, desktop, and mobile apps to search for a person and create relationships. I spend time on publishing my family search work and not on coding. I am building my own FamilySearch.org API from Entity Extraction like Google Pittsburgh!
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FamilySearch: Site Map
https://familysearch.org/site-map
There is no search for Web Content.There is amazing search for Records.
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Family Pedigree: Your Father
https://familysearch.org/first-run/#/edit/father
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Family Tree: Your Father Match
https://familysearch.org/first-run/#/matches/father
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Family Tree: Your Father
https://familysearch.org/first-run/#/my/father
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Family Tree: Your Mother
https://familysearch.org/first-run/#/edit/mother
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Family Tree: Your Grandfather
https://familysearch.org/first-run/#/my/paternalGrandfather
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Family Tree: Thank You
https://familysearch.org/first-run/#/finished
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Family Tree: Traditional
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=tree§ion=pedigree&person=LX8G-N31
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Family Tree: Portrait
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=tree§ion=descendancy&person=LX8G-N31
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Family Tree: Fan Chart
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=tree§ion=fan&person=LX8G-N31
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Family Tree: Portrait
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=tree§ion=portrait&person=LX8G-N31
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Family Tree: Person
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor
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Family Tree: Find
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=search&gender=Male&fName=Harold&lName=Niemann&event=Marriage&eDateF=1939&search=1&cb=1422209099837
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Family Tree: Create a Source
https://familysearch.org/links-gadget/linkpage.jsp?locale=%27%20+%20document.documentElement.lang%20+%20%27&referrer=%27%20+%20escape(window.location.pathname)%20+%20%27#asp
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Search: Records
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Search: Genealogies
https://familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3A%22Lawrence%20Alton%22%20%2Bsurname%3AEdwards&collection_id=(2%203)
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Search: Catalog
https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3ANiemann
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Search: Books
https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2000381
Family History Books is a collection of more than 150,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees. The valuable resources included in Family History Books come from ten partner institutions.
This is the book I extracted over 1,000 names from in 2012 for My Family History Dashboard and Temple Work.
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Search: Wiki
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Special:Search?fulltext=true&search=Nebraska+City+Nebraska+Family+History+Center
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Memories
• Photos Agreement:– By continuing with the upload process, you confirm that you have
the right and/or permission to share any images you submit, and you agree to the terms and conditions of the FamilySearch Content Submission Agreement. You also acknowledge that any images you upload become part of the collection hosted by FamilySearch.org, which is publicly viewable and accessible by anyone online. You will be able to remove images you have contributed to FamilySearch.org, but FamilySearch.org is under no obligation to monitor or inhibit the use of contributed images by others. Currently we support JPG and PNG files.
• I have read and agree to the Submission Agreement.– My Note: I prefer to control this myself in MindTouch and do:
STORIES, DOCUMENTS, AUDIO, PEOPLE, ALBUMS, and FIND there.https://familysearch.org/photos/images?openUpload=true
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MyFamilySearch.org:MindTouch Knowledge Base
MyFamilySearch.org
Google Chrome Find: Germany
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MyFamilySearch.org:Excel Spreadsheet Index for Blogs
MyFamilySearch.org.xlsx
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MyFamilySearch.org:Spotfire Dashboard
Web Player
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Some Conclusions & Recommendations
• Data Science for MyFamilySearch.org has created a MindTouch version with custom notes that is searchable to go with the amazing search for Records that FamilySearch.org provides.
• MyTableBox of MyFamily Tree provides an interface to Big Data, which is all of my content as data before me for action, in a REST with Hypermedia Platform.
• Entity Extraction like Google Pittsburgh is the key to semantic search and linking in my MindTouch Knowledge Base, Excel Spreadsheets, and Spotfire Dashboard.
• More Entity Extraction from FamilySearch.org Records for MyFamilySearch.org Names is the next step for building out MyTableBox.