[Opengenalliance] RootsTech 2012: GEDCOM X and historical-data.org

[nick.barratt at virgin.net]

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

-- 
Tod Robbins
iSchool GSA Crew
MLIS Candidate 2012
University of Washington


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