- From: Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>
- Date: 03 May 2002 23:14:16 +0200
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
* B. Cookson | | RDF seems like a perfect fit for genealogical data (Family | Histories, etc.) . What work is being done using RDF and specific | schemas using RDFS/DAML, etc. I've done some experiments with this, which basically involved creating a GEDCOM parser that produced RDF from GEDCOM files. This RDF followed the original GEDCOM data model pretty closely, and used a schema I created. My goal was to create a topic map of the data. Originally I did this directly (that is GEDCOM -> TM) in one step, but I quickly realized that most GEDCOM files have more structure inside the various fields that one may want to mine. So my current approach is GEDCOM -> RDF, chew and mine RDF, RDF -> TM. This works pretty well. Unfortunately, I'm not sure I can release this, as it's done as part of closed-source product development. The RDF schema is pretty straightforward, though. Just look at the GEDCOM format documentation and you can more or less recreate it directly. I also looked around before starting on my own RDF schema to see if anyone else had done RDF schemas for genealogical information, but couldn't find any. -- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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