Family History Information Standards Organisation Luther Tychonievich FHISO’s Technical Standing Committee Coordinator
Once Upon a Time genealogy tool, gave it to a friend who that the data arrived all messed up. * It might have been another instance of the same tool… Luther Tychonievich 2 of 12 Someone exported a . ged file from a imported it into another * tool, and found
BetterGEDCOM These two talked to a third friend and started a wiki called BetterGEDCOM. More people got involved, and many ideas were shared. But people disagreed and no consensus was forthcoming. BetterGEDCOM lacked the structure to define a new standard. Luther Tychonievich 3 of 12
FHISO Born (2012–early 2013) They decided to make an organisation that could get things done. They talked to lots of companies and got buy-in from many. They incorporated as a non-profit and wrote by-laws. They appointed a board. They put out a Call for Papers. Luther Tychonievich 4 of 12
FHISO Stalls Life got in the way for some of the initial group of FHISO organisers. Illness, loss of employment, and other personal issues meant FHISO lost momentum. Luther Tychonievich 5 of 12
FHISO Wakes Up (Summer 2014) I was appointed as the new Coordinator of the Technical Standing Committee, with Richard Smith as co-coordinator. and Policy Manual Luther Tychonievich 6 of 12 • We produced a Charter and an Operations • We created mailing lists: tsc-public , tsc-announce , and others • Volunteers appeared; work has begun
Technical Process Overview context of work on an idea FHISO members Luther Tychonievich 7 of 12 • Ideas can come from anywhere • Exploratory Groups define the scope and • Project Teams produce proposed standards • Proposed standards are voted on by all
Current Exploratory Groups tools’ approaches to persons, properties, events, and relationships intersection of software and genealogy (An informal Bibliography effort is also ongoing) Luther Tychonievich 8 of 12 • Core Concepts – documenting existing • Lexicon – documenting words we use in the
Future Exploratory Groups the necessary number of volunteers: personal names, place names, microdata, metadata, inference data, research logs, automation, query languages, archivability… Luther Tychonievich 9 of 12 • The following have been proposed but lack • Sources and Citations (1 volunteer so far) • Modularisation (no volunteers) • Data Formalism (no volunteers) • There are many other ideas: calenders,
Likely Future We don’t make deadlines for ourselves. Luther Tychonievich 10 of 12 • Goal: a sustainable, careful pace. • Goals for this year: • Re-engage member organisations • Possibly start a third Exploratory Group • First Project Team: probably a year away • First standard: probably several years away • We have enough work to last for decades
Involvement proposed standards more, and will focus on whatever topics our members want to pursue Luther Tychonievich 11 of 12 • We seek to build consensus around • That means listening to others • …which means moving slowly • We are all volunteers, always welcome
Questions? Luther Tychonievich 12 of 12 http://fhiso.org tsc@fhiso.org ltychonievich@fhiso.org
Recommend
More recommend
