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The Bloggers’ Geneameme - Blog comment by luvvie - 30 Aug 2013
Lovely to meet you via Jill's meme. Great post!
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The Bloggers’ Geneameme - Blog comment by geniaus - 28 Aug 2013
Thanks, Louis for joining in this activity and all your kind words. I'll have another necklace for you if we meet again.
For those who may read this post and don't know Louis he is the man behind that amazing resource, Genealogy Software Reviews, http://www.gensoftreviews.com/
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A Recipe for GEDCOM - Blog comment by lkessler - 4 Aug 2013
Bob,
With BetterGEDCOM, I do recall discussing the copyright. In the BetterGEDCOM requirements, the copyright is listed as one of the requirement constraints. But I don't remember any formal inquiry being made about it.
Yes, you are correct. If FHISO or anyone else decides to update, rather than rewrite ...
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A Recipe for GEDCOM - Blog comment by coret - 4 Aug 2013
Louis,
I like your recipe for GEDCOM, I can smell the result already!
I am not certain though, what community you (and Justin) are refering to. I do not think it is 'all genealogists'. I think a large part of 'all genealogists' use one program and are satisfied, even when transfering data to an online ...
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A Recipe for GEDCOM - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Aug 2013
Justin,
Excellent question.
Here's 4 reasons why the community doesn't think GEDCOM can be fixed:
1. The community only sees that their data does not transfer and blame it all on GEDCOM. In fact, only part of it is GEDCOM, and those parts can be fixed.
2. They see that GEDCOM has not been updated ...
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A Recipe for GEDCOM - Blog comment by justincyork - 3 Aug 2013
The community at large seems to have abandoned the idea that GEDCOM can be fixed. Why do you think that is?
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A Recipe for GEDCOM - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Aug 2013
Gene,
There's no "key" here. It's all over the board.
James Tanner may be right that compatibility has never been important to developers. But they need to realize that people are getting smarter and it's going to be more difficult to get someone to switch to their program if it is known that some things ...
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A Recipe for GEDCOM - Blog comment by geneg - 3 Aug 2013
What is the key non-compatibility issue among different vendors' use of GEDCOM? Is it extensions to the schema to represent different kinds of metadata? Or is it something more fundamental about how facts and evidence are related? Or something else?
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Source Based Document Organization - Blog comment by lkessler - 11 Jun 2013
Sue,
That is a very technical and detailed blog post. Almost too detailed for me to figure out. :-)
But I understand what you're saying and I very much agree. Store from whence it came.
Louis
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Countdown 15 minutes to Organization - Blog comment by deckie49 - 3 Sep 2013