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The vision of "HIS" (Harvest Information System) is to provide this information directly with links to information through a standardized system of coding for types of information such as peoples, languages, religions, geographic areas, etc. ............................................
The AD2000 and Beyond Movement is currently sponsoring the database development effort. For now, any seconded staff or volunteers would work at the Colorado Springs International Office in Colorado. ...........................
3. A common database A common information database is being constructed that will make available non-secured, interrelated, user-friendly information that will be distributed by CD-ROM and hard copy. Security aspects will be handled separately....
More Details on the HIS Database....
B. How Will the Harvest Information System Work?
1. Summary functions:
a) It encompasses all peoples, places and persons--by language, culture, religion and physical location. It identifies who a person is both individually and collectively by languages spoken, country and state/province of residence, religion and physical location to the level of neighborhood within a community/district within a city.
It is based upon:
b) The perception of how people see themselves.
c) The information sets or registries that unite and/or divide people.
d) A relationship and relational information system.
e) Effectiveness: A change on one line will change the information of that item throughout the entire system.
2. Contents:
a) The Harvest Field--There are five principal descriptors which cause a people to be seen as the same or different: cultural, linguistic, religious, political and spatial.
b) The Harvest Force--This includes mission organizations, mission ministries, mission networking, and individual persons, skills, and mission products.
c) The Harvest Yield--This reflects the results of the Church's efforts as it seeks to reach out to the peoples of the world.
http://www.missionfrontiers.org/2000/03/bush2.htm
However, the goal being pursued by the new Harvest Information System Services (HIS) is to have a list of all people groups, of all sizes, including those under 10,000 and states of reachedness. The HIS database has merged information from the Wycliffe/SIL Ethnologue with data from the Joshua Project, the Indian Mission Association (IMA), the Integrated Strategic Planning Database (ISPD) of the Southern Baptists and Patrick Johnstone's information. Codes were standardized using the Ethnologue, JPL, IMA and ISPD data to allow cross-referencing between lists and further validation. The HIS Peoples listing now represents an integration of at least five major sets of people group information. The plan is to have this information ready for distribution on CD to the interested global community of Great Commission leaders by the end of the year 2000.
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