Core Goals

1. open standards: encourage innovative use
2. security: encourage public participation without compromising scholarly consistency
3. academic authority: well-documented sources to give credibility to our genealogical data
4. reducing redundancy: encouraging many groups to store their genealogical and historical information in one place, to help advance the scholarly pursuit of genealogy by bringing together more data.

These questions---

1. what and how to annotate
2. what and how to version
3. and how annotations and versions work together? ---are the root of all difficulty in this project.