On 4 Sep at 14:48, Chris Dickinson <chris@dickinson.uk.net> wrote: > Steve Hayes wrote: > > > > ‘Kindred Britain’ maps 30,000 people in British history > > > A fantastic new visualisation work has been released today titled > > ‘Kindred Britain‘. Created by Nicholas Jenkins and Elijah Meeks of > > Stanford University in partnership with Scott Murray (amongst > > others) the project offers a deep, exploratory interface into a > > network of nearly 30,000 key figures in British culture connected > > through ‘family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation’. > > As the designers describe, ‘it is a vision of the nation’s history > > as a giant family affair’. > > > http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/08/kindred-britain-maps-30000-people-in-british-history/ > > > http://kindred.stanford.edu/# > > <snip> > > Thanks for posting this, Steve. It looks very interesting, if slightly > incomprehensible at first glance. Yes, it is a very interesting new format for displaying a genealogical database. I wonder if the main program/system is available, so that we could try inserting our own data? Then, it would be sensible if it accepted a limited range of GEDCOM fields, so that we could easily transfer our own data in. Can it? I could find no means of answering my questions on the Stanford University site. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/