Genealogical and Historical Data Standards

Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO)

FHISO is a newly-formed international organisation created to develop standards for the digital representation and sharing of family history and genealogical information. The standards will solve today’s interoperability issues independently of technology platforms, genealogy products or services. They will provide opportunities for innovation and will address robust user requirements such as search, capture and research administration.

GenContent

Let's start the discussion towards creating a universal standard for delivering genealogical content in digital formats.

historical-data.org - Historical and Genealogical MicroData

The scope of this project is limited to defining the schemas for historical and genealogical microdata that is designed primarily to enable search engines, web crawlers, browsers, and other tools for enabling users to find and understand the historical data contained on an HTML page.

National Genealogical Society | Projects - Genealogical Data Model

GenTech is widely known for the work that its Lexicon Working Group has done in developing the GenTech Genealogical Data Model, a formal model of genealogical data and of the genealogical research process. The model is of fundamental interest to developers of genealogy software.