Call for Papers Submissions
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| CFPS | Submitter | Title | Type | Created | Updated | Keywords | Description | See Also |
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| 122 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal for Image Meta-Data Standard | Area to Standardise | 2015-05-24 | 2015-05-24 | Images, copyright, Attribution, Metadata | Proposal to devise an image meta-data standard to handle copyright, attribution, provenance, and the identification of historical subjects, including their position. | |
| 114 | Kessler, Louis | Standardized Sources and Citation Templates | Proposal | 2014-08-30 | 2014-08-30 | sources, citations, formatting, GEDCOM, repository, templates, data transfer | This paper describes how GEDCOM currently handles sources and citations, and suggests how a new standard could and should handle them. | 63 65 78 112 |
| 112 | Tychonievich, Luther | Desirable Citation Properties | Requirement | 2014-08-20 | 2014-08-20 | Citations, sources, properties | A list of properties that a citation model should strive to achieve. It is unlike that any single model could achieve them all. | 63 65 78 114 |
| 104 | Smith, Richard | Proposal to use GEDCOM X’s container format | Comment on CFPS 91 | 2014-02-01 | 2014-02-01 | GEDCOM X, container files, jar files, MIME types, metadata, Dublin Core, modularity, URIs | This paper considers the proposal to ratify GEDCOM X as a FHISO standard, and supports the adoption of GEDCOM X's container file format. | 91 |
| 103 | Smith, Richard | A trivial timestamp type | Proposal | 2014-01-29 | 2014-01-29 | dates, timestamps, time zones | This paper proposes a light-weight timestamp type for representing the creation and modification times of digital resources. | 17 91 |
| 102 | Smith, Richard | Proposal to support dates BC as negative years | Proposal | 2014-01-29 | 2014-01-29 | dates, calendars, proleptic calendars, epoch, BC | This paper presents a case for allowing dates BC to be recorded using the standard Julian and Gregorian calendars, proposes a representation for such dates that is naturally sortable. | 17 44 |
| 101 | Trauring, Philip | Name Templates | Proposal | 2014-01-17 | 2014-01-17 | names, given names, surnames, family, religious, internationalization | A look at how to include all names associated with a person, in different times, cultures, contexts, etc. A single person might have over a dozen name fields associated with them, and this proposal gives a way to organize them and display them properly, considering the many cultural differences in names. | 88 |
| 98 | Hill, Chris | Thoughts on Genealogy Standards | Requirement | 2013-12-12 | 2013-12-12 | Standards, Modelling, Data Formats, Structures | This document has ideas on standards for genealogy systems, how to build them, and on information held within genealogy systems. | 6 |
| 97 | Smith, Richard | Type safety in an extensible data model | Comment on CFPS 79 | 2013-11-25 | 2013-11-25 | data model, statement, node, type safety, extensibility, discovery | This paper resolves some type-safety issues raised in CFPS 79 about the statement formalism of CFPS 77, though which apply equally to CFPS 4's node formalism. | 4 77 79 |
| 96 | Smith, Richard | Proposal to allow recording the holders of offices, titles and land | Proposal | 2013-11-18 | 2014-02-02 | titles, office holders, land ownership, hereditaments, regnal numbers | This paper proposes a structured mechanism for recording the ownership of land, and the holders of titles and offices. | |
| 95 | Smith, Richard | Expressing time-dependent personal attributes | Requirement | 2013-11-16 | 2013-11-16 | statements, properties, time-dependence | This paper makes a functional requirement that all personal attributes can be dated, including those such as personal names that cannot be dated in GEDCOM. | 4 77 |
| 94 | Smith, Richard | Recording provenance using statements about statements | Proposal | 2013-11-14 | 2013-11-14 | data model, statement, provenance, sources, metadata, inference, hypotheses, RDF | This paper extends CFPS 77's statement mechanism with a means of grouping statements into bundles for the purpose of description which it proposes to use to record provenance infomation and other metadata. | 4 77 |
| 93 | Smith, Richard | Requirements for storing media objects | Requirement | 2013-10-30 | 2013-10-30 | media objects, images, audio, container files, jar files, MIME types, metadata, Dublin Core | This paper discusses the requirements for storing media objects, such as images, vidoes and audio recordings, and attaching them to items of genealogical significance. | |
| 91 | Heaton, Ryan | A substantive vision and proposal to validate and ratify the GEDCOM X specification set | Proposal | 2013-03-29 | 2013-03-29 | GEDCOM X, vision | A substantive vision for FHISO, and a proposal that FHISO's first step in fulfillment of this vision be to validate and ratify the GEDCOM X specification set. | 103 104 |
| 90 | Gardner, Robert | FHISO Microdata Markup Proposal | Area to Standardise | 2013-08-14 | 2013-08-14 | microdata markup html | This paper proposes a microdata markup standard based on the Schema.org vocabulary to be used for genealogical information published on the World Wide Web. The authors propose that FHISO assume responsibility for publishing, promoting, enhancing, and maintaining the standard. | |
| 89 | Cothey, Viv | Sources, events, personae, individuals and graphs | Comment on CFPS 72 | 2013-08-06 | 2013-08-06 | The paper identifies an evidence graph as the basis for an explicitly evidence based and culturally agnostic approach to genealogical information systems. | 4 21 22 24 25 34 63 70 72 73 78 | |
| 88 | Trauring, Philip | Asynchronous Collaboration: A Proposal | Proposal | 2013-07-30 | 2013-07-30 | collaboration, sharing, cloud storage, UUID, media, photographs, documents, sources, geographic, places, events | A series of methods for sharing information between different researchers, that are investigating overlapping segments of their family trees, and receiving updates. | 101 |
| 79 | Tychonievich, Luther | The Principle of Sensible Disbelief | Comment on CFPS 77 | 2013-06-25 | 2013-06-25 | The principle of sensible disbelief provides useful research-modelling and disagreement-moderating properties in CFPS 4 which are absent from CFPS 77. | 4 77 97 | |
| 78 | Kessler, Louis | Nine Necessities in a GEDCOM Replacement | Requirement | 2013-06-05 | 2013-06-05 | sources, conclusions, citations, formatting, places, events, facts, data model, syntax, extensions, registration, testing, updates | This paper describes requirements for a Source Detail record and a Place record to be added, and stresses issues such as no extensions, registration and compliance testing, and regular updates, as well as the need to keep the standard as simple as possible. | 89 112 114 |
| 77 | Smith, Richard | A unified formalism for genealogical statements | Comment on CFPS 4 | 2013-06-05 | 2013-06-05 | data model, architecture, statement, graph, RDF | This paper proposes a way of unifying the various types of node in the formalism for modelling genealogical research proposed in CFPS 4. | 4 79 94 95 97 |
| 75 | Smith, Richard | Functional requirement for recording searches | Requirement | 2013-05-22 | 2013-05-22 | search, inference, negative inference | This paper discusses the requirement for recording searches, whether proposed, successful or unsuccessful, in addition to the results of the search. | |
| 74 | Tychonievich, Luther | Family History Lexicon | Area to Standardise | 2013-05-10 | 2013-05-10 | lexicon, dictionary, terms, definitions, vocabulary | FHISO should maintain a lexicon of terms and their several meanings to help mitigate confusions caused by terms with multiple distinct usages. And example lexicon is included | 23 |
| 73 | Johnston, Wesley | Beyond Lineage-Linked | Requirement | 2013-05-09 | 2013-05-09 | relationships, community trees, place, merging, sharing, manipulation, sorting, searching, aggregating, reporting, analysis | There is a need to model, share, and manipulate relationships other than inter-personal lineage-linkage. | 89 |
| 72 | Wetmore, Thomas | Persona Records | Area to Standardise | 2013-05-01 | 2013-05-01 | Persona, Person Record, Data Model, Research, Evidence, Conclusion, Nominal Record, Two-tier, N-tier | A persona record contains a transcription of information about a single person found in a single item from source material. Persona records are important components in genealogical systems that support recording evidence and research. | 89 |
| 71 | Johnston, Wesley | Attachments | Requirement | 2013-05-07 | 2013-05-07 | merge, atttachment, file, image, picture, photograph, document, pdf | This paper identifies a few functional requirements for files attached to an entity within a GEDCOM database. | |
| 70 | Johnston, Wesley | Places | Requirement | 2013-05-07 | 2013-05-07 | place, town, city, street, township, county, country | This paper identifies several functional requirements for places within a GEDCOM database. | 89 |
| 69 | Fitzpatrick, Jerry | A Transcription Notation for Genealogy | Proposal | 2013-05-05 | 2013-05-05 | transcription, translation, notation, annotation, note | A proposed notation for improving the transcription and translation of genealogical sources. | 27 |
| 68 | Smith, Richard | Comments on the serialisation of date ranges in CFPS 17 and CFPS 40 | Comment on CFPS 40 | 2013-04-30 | 2013-04-30 | dates, date ranges, durations, precision, calendars | Comments on alternative syntaxes for date ranges, and the need to define their semantics including the arithmetic of durations and dates. | 17 40 67 |
| 67 | Smith, Richard | Proposal to extend the calendar style mechanism of CFPS 43 into an abstract formatting model | Proposal | 2013-04-30 | 2013-04-30 | dates, calendars, date style, formatting, calendar facets | CFPS 43's style mechanism is extended into abstract formatting model that would allow applications to format correctly dates written in many unknown calendar systems. | 17 37 38 43 44 68 |
| 65 | Tychonievich, Luther | A Gradual Path to Standardised Citations | Proposal | 2013-04-26 | 2013-04-29 | sources, citations, names, outref, xref, cross-references, xlink, pointers, variants | Citations are a mix of out-references and cross-references. These can be standardised independently of a Citations Names Authority. | 112 114 |
| 63 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal for Handling Sources and Citations | Proposal | 2013-04-22 | 2013-04-22 | Sources, Citations | Proposal for handling sources and citations | 89 112 114 |
| 44 | Smith, Richard | Proposal to support the Julian calendar similarly to CFPS 17 | Proposal | 2013-04-19 | 2013-04-19 | dates, calendars, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar | Proposal for a Julian calendar with years starting on 1 Jan | 17 67 102 |
| 43 | Smith, Richard | Proposal to add style to the wholly-numeric representation of dates in CFPS 13 | Proposal | 2013-04-19 | 2013-04-19 | dates, calendars, date style, Julian calendar, Roman calendar, regnal years | Proposal to separate presentation from representation in calendars in order to avoid a proliferation of calendars. | 13 67 |
| 40 | Tychonievich, Luther | Sortable, Versatile CFPS 17 | Comment on CFPS 17 | 2013-04-17 | 2013-04-17 | Dates, Date Range, ISO-8601, Quarters | CFPS 17's yearly quarters are not sortable with other dates; fixing this makes the proposal more general as well. | 17 68 |
| 38 | Smith, Richard | Proposal for compound calendars to resolve a difficulty with default calendars | Proposal | 2013-04-14 | 2013-04-14 | dates, calendars, calendar change, Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, English calendar | Proposal to allow the default calendar to be dependent on the date. | 13 67 |
| 37 | Smith, Richard | Proposal for a scalable extensibility mechanism | Proposal | 2013-04-12 | 2015-05-30 | extensibility, vendor extensions, forwards compatibility, decentralised development, XML namespaces, URIs, GEDCOM | Proposal to address certain extensibility requirements by using XML namespaces, both in XML formats and in non-XML formats such as GEDCOM. | 67 |
| 36 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal for Accommodating Custom Properties | Proposal | 2013-04-03 | 2013-04-20 | Properties, Customisation, Person | Proposal for accommodating custom properties for persons | |
| 34 | Proctor, Tony | Requirement to Separate Evidence and Conclusion | Requirement | 2013-03-30 | 2013-04-20 | Evidence, Conclusion, Transcription, Mark-up | Requirement to separate evidence and conclusion | 89 |
| 31 | Proctor, Tony | Requirement to Support Family History Data | Requirement | 2013-03-29 | 2013-04-20 | Family-history, Genealogy, Events, Narrative | Requirement to support both Family History and Genealogy data | |
| 27 | Proctor, Tony | Requirement for Representing Uncertain Characters | Requirement | 2013-03-27 | 2013-04-20 | Transcription, Mark-up, UCF | Requirement for representing uncertain characters in transcribed data | 69 |
| 25 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Accommodate Structured Events | Proposal | 2013-03-07 | 2013-04-20 | Events, Events-protracted, Events-hierarchical | Proposal to accommodate protracted and hierarchical events | 89 |
| 24 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Adopt Certain Core Record Linkages | Proposal | 2013-03-14 | 2013-04-20 | Record-linkage, Events, Persons, Sources, Personae | Proposal for the major record linkages in the data model | 89 |
| 23 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Defining a Preferred Vocabulary | Area to Standardise | 2013-03-19 | 2013-04-20 | Glossary, Lexicon, Vocabulary | Proposal to define a Preferred Vocabulary and Lexicon | 74 |
| 22 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal for Handling Place References | Proposal | 2013-03-21 | 2013-04-20 | Place-references, Place-hierarchies | Proposal for handling Place References | 89 |
| 21 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal for Handling Personal Names | Proposal | 2013-03-19 | 2013-04-20 | Personal-names, Culture-neutral | Proposal for Handling Personal Names | 89 |
| 20 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal for Handling Partially Controlled Vocabularies | Proposal | 2013-03-13 | 2013-04-20 | Tag-values, Namespaces, Software-vocabulary | Proposal for handling partially controlled vocabularies for types | |
| 19 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Create a Standard Run-time Object Model | Area to Standardise | 2013-02-25 | 2013-04-20 | Object-model, Scripting, Queries | Proposal to have a standard object model to support scripting and query languages. | |
| 18 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Accommodate Mark-up in Narrative Text | Proposal | 2013-03-08 | 2013-04-20 | Text, Narrative, Mark-up | Proposal to accommodate mark-up in all forms of narrative text | |
| 17 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Accommodate Gregorian Dates using a Modified ISO 8601 | Proposal | 2013-03-06 | 2013-04-20 | Dates, Date Range, ISO-8601, Quarters | Proposed adoption of a modified ISO 8601 subset to accommodate Gregorian dates, and yearly quarters thereof | 40 44 67 68 102 103 |
| 16 | Proctor, Tony | Requirement for Locale Independence in Data Representations | Requirement | 2013-03-11 | 2013-04-20 | Locales, Portability, Serialisation-format | Functional requirement for locale independence in representations of the Data Model. | |
| 15 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Accommodate Event Constraints | Proposal | 2013-03-06 | 2013-04-20 | Events, Event-ordering | Proposed adoption constraints between events | |
| 14 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal for a Generalised Dual-Date Representation | Proposal | 2013-03-06 | 2013-04-20 | Dates, Dual-dates, World-calendars | Proposal for a generalised dual-date representation that applies to multiple calendars | 13 |
| 13 | Proctor, Tony | Proposal to Accommodate Alternative World Calendar Systems | Proposal | 2013-03-11 | 2013-04-20 | Dates, World-calendars | Proposed adoption of a date syntax applicable to multiple world calendars, both historical and modern-day. | 14 38 43 |
| 8 | Tychonievich, Luther | Selector Language for Family History Conclusions | Area to Standardise | 2013-03-15 | 2013-03-15 | selector, template, relationship, attribute, conclusion, regular expression, XPath | There should be a standard way to express things like “two people, one the second cousin of the other, both from Prussia.” | 5 |
| 7 | Tychonievich, Luther | Multi-Granularity Standards | Requirement | 2013-03-17 | 2013-03-17 | Data model, requirement, conflict, multiple standards, import, export, granularity, lattice | Tools must be able to import course-grained information because existing usage patterns presume incompatible data granularity. | |
| 6 | Tychonievich, Luther | Partial Implementation and Extensions | Requirement | 2013-03-15 | 2013-04-16 | partial implementation, extension, collaboration | Round-trip communication between tools supporting different portions of the data standard should behave sanely. Nine use cases demonstrate what that means. | 98 |
| 5 | Tychonievich, Luther | Inference Rules | Proposal | 2013-03-15 | 2013-03-15 | inference, indirect evidence, evidence, rule, extension | Inference rules used in indirect evidence should be codified within the data model. | 8 |
| 4 | Tychonievich, Luther | Modeling Research, not Conclusions | Proposal | 2013-03-10 | 2013-03-10 | Data model, architecture, research | An data model architecture for storing each step in the research process, simplifying collaboration. | 77 79 89 94 95 97 |
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