Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

Louis, I understand what you say, but my experience in technology is that once functionality is good enough for people that invest in it, like the providers of the unnamed APIs that you may be referring to, there's not much progress to expect. It's just like GEDCOM itself. If it sort of works for many, why ...

Louis, I agree with your vision, but it leaves me with a bit of pessimism. And that's because the APIs still concentrate on persons, not evidence. There's no good exchange of what you call source details, and part of that seems to be linked to the big companies seeing sources as their assets, and don't provide ...

My tools? Well, seeing as I don't like the majority of the genealogical software I have seen to date I decided to try roll my own solution. When I was thinking about how to tackle such a large project, it seemed to make sense to break things down into a series of small, interconnectable tools that each focus on ...

While you are correct in how standardised APIs are generally created, I believe it can be done without so much chaos. FHISO has a great opportunity to be a key driver in this space, but the FHISO participants need to stop being distracted by the glare of their own brilliance. From what I can make out from the ...

Very good points. Well thought out. I certainly agree.

I agree that APIs are the future of genealogy software, however some standardisation is still neded. The genealogy tools I am writing will expose REST APIs to allow for data interchange between different tools and that's great, but if you wanted to integrate Behold with my apps, we will still need to agree on ...