Going on for three years, I have been working on a committee that is helping to develop an upgraded version of GEDCOM. The last major release, Version 5.5 of the GEDCOM Standard was in 1996. A modification of the GEDCOM Standard, Version 5.5.1, in November of 2019. After years of work and input from the larger genealogical community, a new Standard, Version 7.0.0 was prepared for release and Version 7.0.2 was officially released in June of 2021. GEDCOM 7.0 is not a program, per se, but a standard way of exchanging data between different genealogy programs and websites.
We have been preparing videos outlining the changes and additions to the Standard for RootsTech Virtual 2022. There will be a lot of presentations and videos at the conference but there will also be a way to search for specific topics and videos. We will also be holding a live online Q&A session during the Conference.
You can read about the new GEDCOM Version 7.0 in the blog linked above.
I do wonder how the uptake is going, James, because it's as much about cleansing the data (e.g. having at least some consistency in dates, for instance) as it is about adopting the V7 modifications. I presume there will be some presentation on this at RootsTech.
ReplyDeleteYes, there is a Q&A presentation probably on Friday, but we haven't seen the schedule yet.
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