Yesterday Hilton blogged about the Genesis Data Model, which includes the Genealogy Core and Genealogy Provenance ontologies. I hadn’t really looked much at RDF until I read this, but it seems like a pretty good idea for Beyond’s interchange format.

For example, named graphs allow you to say, “All of this information came from this source.” I’m still not entirely clear on how redundant that might get, but it does allow you to stitch together what each source offered.

I checked out Practical RDF from the library and will be reading it once finals are over. Grokking RDF will no doubt help a lot with figuring out just how it’ll be useful in Beyond’s world. I do very much like the idea of the semantic web. More on this later. Much more. :)

I’ve also started sketching out the Beyond data model. Once I’ve established its requirements, I’ll better be able to tell whether any existing models (including Genesis) fit the bill, and if none do, which of them might be similar enough to alter instead of starting from scratch.

Now to get back to studying…

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