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FHISO is currently working towards a suite of standards covering citations and legacy data formats. We are happy to announce that several drafts have reached the point where we would like to encourage comment and feedback from interested parties. The tsc-public mailing list is the preferred place for discussing this work.

Citation Elements

Citation Elements: General Concepts

This document defines the general concepts used in FHISO’s suite of Citation Elements standards, and the basic framework and data model underpinning them.

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Citation Elements: Bindings for RDFa

This document defines a means by which citation elements may be identified and tagged using RDFa attributes within HTML and XML formatted citations, allowing an application to extract them in a systematic manner.

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Citations: Goals and Considerations

This document surveys requirements that have been expressed for a citations standard; high-level designs that have been proposed; and which requirements each design is suited to handle.

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Citation Elements: Bindings for GEDCOM

This document defines how citation elements should be represented in FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0.

No draft of this document has yet been released.
Citation Elements: Bindings for GEDCOM X

This document defines extensions to the GEDCOM X data model and its JSON and XML serialisations to allow citation elements to be represented in GEDCOM X.

No draft of this document has yet been released.
Citation Elements: Vocabulary

This document defines a collection of citation elements allowing the representation of information normally found in formatted citations to diverse types of source.

No draft of this document has yet been released.

General Utility Components

Basic Concepts for Genealogical Standards

This document defines various low-level concepts, including those to relating to our use of strings and IRIs. It also defines the abstract foundations of our data model. This is content which will be used in many FHISO standards and so does not logically belong in any one particular higher-level standard.

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The Pattern Datatype

This document defines a dialect of regular expressions that is readily handled by many different regular expression engines, suitable for use in discovery and basic datatype validation.

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Simple Triples Discovery Mechanism

This document defines a simple, general-purpose discovery mechanism which provides a means for internet-connected applications to access information on any unfamiliar third-party extensions which they may encounter.

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Concluded or suspended efforts

Extended Legacy Format (ELF)

Prior to the release of FamilySearch GEDCOM 7.0 FHISO engaged in defining an Extended Legacy Format (ELF) that was backwards-compatible with GEDCOM 5.5.1 but clearer and with added extensibility features needed to bind the same citation standard to GEDCOM and GEDCOM-X. FHISO’s work on ELF helped prompt the creation of the GEDCOM 7.0 project, which included FHISO members who included those extensibility features in the 7.0 specification. As such, the ELF project was suspended.

One public draft was produced as part of the ELF project:

Extended Legacy Format (ELF): Date, Age and Time Microformats

: This document defines microformats for representing dates, ages and times in arbitrary calendars together with how they are applied to the Gregorian, Julian, French Republican and Hebrew calendars in a GEDCOM-compatible manner. : Read the latest public draft or download as a PDF.


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