{"id":302,"date":"2016-04-04T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2024-07-15T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T17:32:42","slug":"data-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/data-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The SILKin user draws family tree charts onscreen to record genealogical data of persons interviewed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">There may be multiple charts (of unlimited size) for a culture\/language, with links between charts. You may choose, for example, to draw each family on a separate chart. If someone from the Smith family marries a member of the Jones family, the marriage can be drawn with Mr. Jones and a link to Miss Smith.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">If the culture being studied has kin terms that reflect adoptive relationships, you can create <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">User Defined Properties<\/span> (UDPs) for one or more types of adoption. Then those adoptive relationships can be drawn on your genealogical charts and factored into the definitions of kin terms.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">If the kinship system recognizes non-genealogical factors (e.g. clans) that do not appear on a family tree chart, those too may be defined as UDPs. Once defined they can be part of the definition for a kin term. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Any person on any chart can be designated \u201cEgo\u201d and another person designated \u201cAlter.\u201d On a Details Panel for Alter you may enter name, birth\/death dates, and notes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">You also enter on the Details Panel the kin term of reference that Ego calls Alter, and the reciprocal term. If there is a separate system of terms of address, those may be entered also.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">When you choose a different Ego, the Details Panel records the kin terms for that Ego\/Alter pair. This allows a compact chart potentially to capture all the kin terms used by all the Ego\/Alter pairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">When the definition of a kin term is known to SILKin, that term can be entered automatically for every Ego\/Alter pair that meets the definition.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SILKin user draws family tree charts onscreen to record genealogical data of persons interviewed. There may be multiple charts (of unlimited size) for a culture\/language, with links between charts. You may choose, for example, to draw each family on a separate chart. If someone from the Smith family marries a member of the Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/silkin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}