Re: [foaf-dev] Vocabulary for Genealogy/Family Tree Information

On May 9, 2011, at 1:15 AM, Bruce Whealton wrote:

>        I guess the relationship vocabulary could work for Genealogy
> information but does anyone know of any other actively used vocabularies for
> Genealogy information?

The BIO vocabulary is a first attempt at addressing some of basic
aspects of genealogy.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Ian Jacobi <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> So far as I'm aware, no really good standards have come up (most genealogy software
> still seems content to use GEDCOM 5(!) to interact with the world outside of the
> program, although maybe a few systems have FINALLY moved to the XML-based
> GEDCOM6 by now; I'm not sure on that account).

There's no such thing as GEDCOM 6.  There was a beta draft for a
while, but it was withdrawn by the authors before ever being
finalized.  Their current work is based around a centralized database
approach which obviates the need for a interchange standard.

Tom