tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post8288760235482123824..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: What ever happened to the genealogical data standards issue?James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-82790465548789116172014-06-16T15:43:03.687-07:002014-06-16T15:43:03.687-07:00But you have to admit that there hasn't been a...But you have to admit that there hasn't been a lot of discussion going on. At least not in the public forum. I agree with your position but the whole issue is likely to be sidetracked by the emphasis on the data exchange. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-19522625185395890822014-06-16T14:46:54.496-07:002014-06-16T14:46:54.496-07:00To me, and to many others, it´s not just a matter ...To me, and to many others, it´s not just a matter of Data Exchange James. In one of my own responses (http://parallax-viewpoint.blogspot.com/2014/06/bootstrapping-data-standard_11.html?google_comment_id=z12kfnti0zjcyl2rv04cc51bvrbkt1wi51c, although this wasn´t taking me precisely to the right comment when I tried it) summarised my other goals in an attempt to dismiss the "API issue" as any type of relevant solution.Tony Proctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330460400737261264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-18186682402681852192014-06-14T11:03:19.896-07:002014-06-14T11:03:19.896-07:00That's not the impression I got at the Innovat...That's not the impression I got at the Innovator Summit. All they did was talk about APIs. From that, I guessed that they were writing code, not just exchanging indexes and data dumps. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-37359070069212308082014-06-14T09:52:17.343-07:002014-06-14T09:52:17.343-07:00For what it's worth, unless someone from one o...For what it's worth, unless someone from one of the big companies spills the beans and tells us the technical truth, I very much doubt that FamilySearch use APIs to access Ancestry data (to take 2 names out of thin air). I suspect they simply copied the indexes of the chosen datasets across, manually writing code to drop items into their corresponding columns in the target databases. Once off. So there's no "live" communication - or, that's my guess. <br /><br />And if that's what happens, then the VLGDCs are not establishing a de facto standard at all - just a whole series of individual recipes that load (say) an Ancestry US census index into a FamilySearch US census index and would be utterly useless to load an Australian census index, apart from serving as inspiration for another individual recipe.Adrian Brucenoreply@blogger.com