Comments on: A handful of ramblings http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/23/a-handful-of-ramblings/ Genealogy anywhere. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:31:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Logan Allred http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/23/a-handful-of-ramblings/#comment-570 Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:29:16 +0000 http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/23/a-handful-of-ramblings/#comment-570 You may want to consider getting a copy of the GeniML spec. A presentation can be seen here: http://www.softwarerenovation.com/igenie/ The actual spec has to be requested from Jerry himself, as he hasn't chosen to publish it fully yet. I haven't read it (just the presentation and the online discussion at the GenealogyXML group), but it's supposed to have taken a lot of the good ideas from the GDM, but couched them in a more practical way and reduced some of the unneeded complexity. He's done a considerable amount of thinking on these issues (and is a lot smarter than I am), and it should be food for thought nonetheless. It was going to be one of the first models I considered for the data model for my new genealogy app once I get around to starting it .... You may want to consider getting a copy of the GeniML spec. A presentation can be seen here:

http://www.softwarerenovation.com/igenie/

The actual spec has to be requested from Jerry himself, as he hasn’t chosen to publish it fully yet.

I haven’t read it (just the presentation and the online discussion at the GenealogyXML group), but it’s supposed to have taken a lot of the good ideas from the GDM, but couched them in a more practical way and reduced some of the unneeded complexity. He’s done a considerable amount of thinking on these issues (and is a lot smarter than I am), and it should be food for thought nonetheless. It was going to be one of the first models I considered for the data model for my new genealogy app once I get around to starting it ….

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