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Exploratory Groups

Note: It was originally envisaged that FHISO’s initial technical work would be carried out in exploratory groups (EGs), each focusing on a specific aspect of the FHISO’s work. Following a simplification in our administrative structure, this is no longer the case, and these exploratory groups are inactive.


Established exploratory groups

Sources and Citations Exploratory Group

Status
Proposed by the TSC on 2014-08-15 and created on 2015-04-10 Suspended as of 2016-03-22.
Mission
To cary out exploratory work regarding data representation of information about and information contained within individual documents, monuments, artefacts, interviews, and other sources of data of interest to family history. [See more…]

Lexicon Exploratory Group

Status
Proposed by Tony Proctor on 2014-08-26 and created on 2014-10-02.
Mission
To produce a lexicon of common usage and best practices for genealogical terminology in the English language. [See more…]

Core Concepts Exploratory Group

Status
Proposed by the TSC on 2014-08-15 and created on 2014-09-23. Suspended as of 2015-06-19.
Mission
To carry out exploratory work into the core genealogical concepts pertaining to persons, their intrinsic and extrinsic properties, the events in their lives, and the relationships they have with other persons. [See more…]

Proposed exploratory groups

Modularisation Exploratory Group

Status
Proposed by the TSC on 2014-08-15
Focus
It will be necessary to have separate project teams working on different aspects of the proposed standard, but is it best to publish a single monolithic standard, or is it preferable to divide it into separate modules? Can different modules be published and updated according to different release schedules? What implications does this have for forwards and backwards compatibility? Is it acceptable for applications to support only some modules? Is there a place for niche modules developed outside the FHISO? What about vendor extensions? What consequences does this have for interoperability?

Data Formalism Exploratory Group

Status
Proposed by the TSC on 2014-08-15
Focus
We will need a way of describing our data model: what should it be? Should we think about objects with a list of properties as in a SQL database? Should it be a list of statements linking a subject and object as in the Semantic Web? Or do we not need an abstract means of describing the data model: do we simply document a serialisation format as GEDCOM does? Are there standard formalisms that can be used without imposing a particular choice of serialisation format? How do we specify type constraints: for example that the parent of an individual is another individual and not an event or a date?

How to propose a new exploratory group

The TSC is not soliciting proposals for new exploratory groups to allow us to concentrate on our current priorities.