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Genealogy and the Semantic Web 2 « John’s Weblog
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I’ve been busy converting my parents hard work on their family tree into RDF. I blogged about initial attempts here. It’s far from finished, but at around 500,000 triples already it looks like it’s going to be a lot of RDF!

You can view the RDF (as it is) here, but seeing as RDF is for machines a more human friendly version can be browsed here. So far I’ve been concentrating on linking places of death and birth to various other datasets include geonames, DBpedia, Freebase and Ordnance Survey (though there still a fair few places to link).

To be done:

1) Finish connecting all the places.

2) Sort date formats out.

3) Turn into linked data with dereferencable URIs and content negotation.

A more detailed write up when it’s all finished…
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http://johngoodwin225.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/genealogy-and-the-semantic-web-2/

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    • Alan Morrison Alan Morrison
      8 months ago


      Looks good so far.... I'm impressed. Jay Askren is another working on these issues, mostly--it appears--from a GEDCOM conversion perspective (http://jay.askren.net/Projects/SemWeb/). Seems like Ian Davis has a twine on the topic of genealogy and sem Web.

      The tech approaches to genealogy are so fragmented. Geni is a wikified flash site, an improvement in some ways on Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker, but not in others. I finally gave up on it when it didn't seem there was any intelligent way to post source info there.
      John's Semantic Technology Twine
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