Genealogical and Historical Data Standards

Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO)

FHISO is an international organisation established for the purpose of developing and recommending information standards for genealogy and family history purposes. It exists to bring together genealogy companies of all sizes, as well as professional genealogists and hobbyists, to collaborate on standards that will benefit the work of genealogists around the world. A number of draft standards are available for public comment at http://tech.fhiso.org/drafts/.

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 - GENTECH 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.

STEMMA Project - Family History Data

STEMMA is an ongoing research project to develop an internationally applicable representation of micro-history, which includes both genealogy and family history. The representation puts great emphasis on the use of narrative, the relationship of evidence to source information, structured multi-person events, hierarchical place entities, and extensibility. It is published to inspire similar research and standards development.