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. This Subject type is meant to represent physical objects that have some significance within your research or family history.
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Real estate or buildings is a Subject type in Clooz. This Subject type could be any type of property such as a land plot, farm, building, etc.
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A screen layout in Clooz that is similar to a grid, but contains 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 an area on the screen.
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A database or GEDCOM file that is independent of the currently open Clooz database. The external file usually supports other family tree programs, or 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 another source. The Information Record differs from a Source record which contains most of the citation information that describes the document or the Repository record that is referring to the facility or an 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. Media 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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An interactive grid showing various record counts for user defined set of rows and columns.
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Real estate or buildings is a Subject type in Clooz. This Subject type could be any type of property such as a land plot, farm, building, etc.
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A Repository is where a source document or item was found. This could be a physical library facility, an online data provider, or even your own personal files.
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A Research Objective is what you are trying to accomplish while researching a specific issue, answering a question, or supporting a hypothesis.
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A user-defined grouping of research objectives and supporting tasks that have something in common with the Research Objectives.
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A task for searching or performing an analysis action conducted while attempting to fulfill the Research Objective.
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A Source record in Clooz should be viewed as the higher-level component of one or more source citations. Source citation details are usually included in the citing Information Record.
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Subjects are the objects you are gathering information about such as people, buildings, ships, etc. In most cases within Clooz, the Subject will be a person. However, Clooz supports several other Subject types such as businesses, real estate/buildings, ships and artifacts.
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These are records within the Clooz database representing the Subjects being researched, and contain summary information about the Subject such as the dates for birth, marriage, and death for people.
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A pre-determined form consisting of a set of data fields designed to match a specific type of source document such as a birth certificate, marriage license, obituary, census, etc..