Clooz Terminology
Here is a list of common terms used in Clooz and their meaning:
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Artifacts are one of the Subject types in Clooz. They are meant to represent physical objects that have some significance in your research or family history.
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Real estate or buildings is a Subject type in Clooz. This could be any type of property: land plot, farm, building, etc.
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A screen layout in Clooz similar to a grid, but containing a hierarchical structure of expandable groups of rows displayed in a parent-child type arrangement.
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The menu window that often appears when you right-click something on the screen.
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A database or GEDCOM file independent of the currently open Clooz database. These usually support other family tree programs, although it could be a different Clooz database.
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A screen layout in Clooz that appears like a spreadsheet, with rows and columns.
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Information Records in Clooz hold the content information coming from a document or other source. These differ from a Source record that contains most of the citation information describing the docment, or the Repository record referring to the facility or online service where the document was found.
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A digital file containing an image, text, spreadsheet, video, audio, or any other format. These can be attached to various records in Clooz as digital representations of source document content, or as Information Records (as photographs, maps, videos, or audio independent of a specific source document).
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Real estate or buildings is a Subject type in Clooz. This could be any type of property: land plot, farm, building, etc.
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Where a source document or item was found. This could be a physical library facility or online data provider.
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What you are trying to accomplish while researching some specific issue, question, or hypothesis.
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A user-defined grouping of research objectives and tasks having something in common.
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A search or analysis action to be conducted while attempting to fulfill a Research Objective.
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A source record in Clooz should be viewed as the higher level components of a source citation. Citation details are pulled from the citing Information Record.
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Subjects are the objects you are gathering information about. In most cases with Clooz, this is people. However, Clooz supports several other types of subjects such as businesses, real estate/buildings, ships and artifacts.
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These are records in the Clooz database representing the Subjects being researched, and contain summary information about the Subject such as the birth, marriage, and death dates for people.
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A pre-determined set of data fields designed to match a specific type of source document.