Data access, as shown in recent days with Sony, is not too difficult to obtain so I trust the websites are secure enough to withstand an attack? Plus surely; it’s not a matter of who owns what but the fact that if any of these databases and analysis techniques become readily available to the genealogical world in pay to view or otherwise, one of the Guilds setting points will be lost. Rod Clayburn, 713. Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:37:03 -0000 > From: Anne Shankland <anne.shankland@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [G] profile page references to Index records > > Debbie and others, the proposals you make are part of the original plan I > put forward for the GMI some time ago. Once converted to a true database, > developments such as this are very straightforward, and the last few > editions of the GMI have existed in both the classic format and database > format. You may have noticed that the GMI now offers an "old search", > which > uses the classic format, and a "new search", which uses the database. > > If I were to get the go-ahead to proceed with the database format, I would > offer (on the new search): > a) A search option for a member to see all the entries for his or her > own registered name. This would be available only to the "owner" of this > data, i.e. the registrant of the surname, and so would not allow any > harvesting of the data by anyone else. > b) A database option for a member with entries in the GMI to allow his > or her entries to be freely searchable by any member. > > I prefer to consider entries to have an "owner" rather than a > "contributor", > the owner being the registrant of the surname. Hence entries might change > hands if a surname registration is transferred from one member to another. > This is a somewhat different concept from the existing one of > "contributor", > but I believe that at present the contributor for each entry is assumed to > be the study owner even if they are not personally submitting the data. > > Thoughts, please? > > Anne Shankland > Web Indexes Administrator > >