genealogy (was Re: life, death and address books (was Re: [uf-discuss] hCard and Life Dates?))

[Tantek Ç elik]

On 4/19/06 2:29 PM, "Atamido" <paul at msn.com> wrote:

> Not that I'm proposing that hCard be used for genealogy, but if a
> genealogy format were made it would likely pull all relevant classes
> from hCard.  In fact, it would probably just be an hCard with a few
> missing/additional classes.

Atamido,

Your suggestion is right on.  Reframing this question as:

"How do we represent genealogy information as it is published on the Web?"

is the best way IMHO to proceed with this discussion.

Start with http://microformats.org/wiki/genealogy-examples and let's go from
there.

Thanks,

Tantek