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This is a page for tracking the effort to develop a genealogy microformat for authors and publishers to people and sets of related people that they create and publish.
This is a page for tracking the effort to develop a genealogy microformat for authors and publishers to people and sets of related people that they create and publish.
== Problem Statement ==
Many people are posting their family trees, but if you were searching for your ancestors, there is no semantic in these pages which helps you link them to similar named individuals in your own tree. Some sites like FreeCEN and FreeBMD have databases which can assist in this linkage, but they are incomplete and frustrating to use.
If there were some kind of order to this process, ordinary web searching might be used; and we could interlink family trees more readily.
[http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/ RDF] and the semantic web has been used to tackle this problem, but this doesn't help people who want to publish-, or search published-, trees until there is a real semantic web.
What may be needed is a microformat to add to examples like [http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/FamilyTrees/AbrahamLincoln.html this tree of Abraham Lincoln].
==See also==


Per the microformats [[process]]:
Per the microformats [[process]]:


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Revision as of 10:14, 27 September 2007

Genealogy

This is a page for tracking the effort to develop a genealogy microformat for authors and publishers to people and sets of related people that they create and publish.

Problem Statement

Many people are posting their family trees, but if you were searching for your ancestors, there is no semantic in these pages which helps you link them to similar named individuals in your own tree. Some sites like FreeCEN and FreeBMD have databases which can assist in this linkage, but they are incomplete and frustrating to use.

If there were some kind of order to this process, ordinary web searching might be used; and we could interlink family trees more readily.

RDF and the semantic web has been used to tackle this problem, but this doesn't help people who want to publish-, or search published-, trees until there is a real semantic web.

What may be needed is a microformat to add to examples like this tree of Abraham Lincoln.

See also

Per the microformats process: