genealogy-brainstorming
Genealogy Brainstorming
Contributors
Building blocks
Since genealogy is about people and their relationships, it is likely that any genealogical microformat will be built from hCard and XFN microformats; with hCalendar used for dates such as marriages and divorces.
Gender
To make life easier for publishers, the following values could all equate, without requiring the use of abbr to:
Male
- male
- he
- man
- m
- son
- father
- husband
- brother
- uncle
- nephew
- grandfather/ grand-father / great-grand-father etc.
- grandson/ grand-son / great-grand-son etc.
- ...
Female
- female
- she
- woman
- f
- fem
- wife
- daughter
- mother
- sister
- aunt
- niece
- grandmother/ grand-mother / great-grand-mother etc.
- granddaughter/ grand-daughter / great-grand-daughter etc.
- ...
Issue
- What about other languages?
- See: internationalisation
- Gender reassignment and other edge cases
- Outside the 80/20 cut-off
- Could use
abbr
Relationships
Additional XFN rel values may be required (e.g. "uncle"; see above for further examples).
From existing publishing practices, it seems likely that primary relationships ("mother", "father", "son", "daughter", "brother", "sister", "husband", "wife"; or perhaps the gender-neutral "parent", "child", "sibling", "spouse") are more commonly expressed when linking from one page to another; though non-marriage partnerships and short-term liaisons should also be catered for.
Date of death
Inevitably, more of our ancestors are dead than alive.
Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See hcard-date-of-death
See also
- genealogy - overview of genealogy microformat effort
- genealogy-examples - research and documentation of existing real world genealogy publishing examples on the web
- genealogy-formats - research and documentation of previous genealogy related formats
- genealogy-brainstorming - brainstorm proposals for a genealogy microformat