Data model

It makes sense to split the development of the data model into several smaller topics:

• Basic event
  • Birth
  • Death
  • Marriage
  • Baptism
  • Burial
• Date
• Time-sensitive Data
• Names
• Source reference
• Possession
• Address
• Inheritance
• Passenger list

[edit] Ontologies

The OWL ontologies give a formal definition of the data model. Each has an "official" purl.org address, followed by it's location on this wiki so that contributers can update it.

GC
http://purl.org/net/genealogy-core
genealogy-core.owl

[edit] Examples

Here are some examples how data could be stored:

• example address book
• example passenger list
• example data from the IGI
• Test data (example data with variations in syntax and verbosity, for use in testing applications)

[edit] Resources

• http://www.xml.com/pub/au/276 - Joshua Tauberer's RDF articles on XML.com
• http://pervasive.semanticweb.org/ont/2004/06/time# - Time ontology, more materials about OWL-Time: http://www.isi.edu/~pan/OWL-Time.html
• http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ - Geonames ontology (site also includes rich downloadable geo database)
• http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/ - Biographical data ontology
• http://www.schemaweb.info/ - RDF schema directory
• http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/mleahey/genealogyAndSemanticWebXHTML.htm - Genealogy and the Semantic Web: A Guide for Family Historians and Amateur Genealogists
• http://xml.coverpages.org/genealogy.html - References for some prominent initiatives which have proposed the use of XML for storing and processing genealogical information
• http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/100-most-common-rdf-namespaces/ - 100 most common RDF namespaces