[Opengenalliance] RootsTech 2012: GEDCOM X and historical-data.org
nick.barratt at virgin.net
nick.barratt at virgin.net
Thu Feb 2 18:20:25 GMT 2012
According to the keynote presentation this morning, Family Search are
advocating
open source and want the new GEDCOM to be a more effective exchange
mechanism to
facilitate transfer to other platforms, linked to work on semantics and
enhanced
data access; demonstration of new Google development on microdata and
schema on
historical-data.org to enable search engines to extract connectivity and
relevance to data rather than simple word search for embedded text in
websites,
making it more intelligent - geni, familysearch, we-relate have adopted
these
standards for the Chrome browser to extract data from across the web and
link to
their content
Original Message:
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From: todd.d.robbins at gmail.com todd.d.robbins at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:44:48 -0800
To: opengenalliance at lists.openrightsgroup.org
Subject: [Opengenalliance] RootsTech 2012: GEDCOM X and historical-data.org
I'm not at this year's RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, but
have been following the best I can from afar. Two huge
announcements/releases related to genealogical data:
- http://www.gedcomx.org/
- GEDCOM X homepage (new genealogical standard by FamilySearch). Not
sure if it's "open" in the fullest sense, though it claims to be. The
source is online at GitHub: https://github.com/FamilySearch/gedcomx
- http://familysearch.github.com/gedcomx/atom.xml
- Blog feed for GEDCOM X
- http://historical-data.org/
- "This site defines a collection of schemas (applied in the form of
HTML tags) that webmasters can use to markup their historical and
genealogical information in a consistent way." Built on schema.org,
Microformats, microdata
More soon,
Tod
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Tod Robbins
iSchool GSA Crew
MLIS Candidate 2012
University of Washington
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