I attended the Family History Expo in Salt Lake City today. It was so nice to just hang out with these fellow genealogy people. They were all so nice! Read more…
Found the following that has a lot of resources for genealogy developers.
Developers
Genealogy Software Developer Resources
If you are looking at developing your own genealogy software, above and beyond setting up a database using software like FileMaker, on this page your going to find links to genealogy-specific development resources (such as libraries), as well as links to open-source genealogy software projects that are always looking for additional developers. Generally, “open-source” means that the source code is available, and the developers are looking for contributions from other developers. For an explanation of just what “open-source” software is, please see this link at Wikipedia.org.
Most of the links listed below will take you to SourceForge.net. This will be continuously added to, so if your interested in development, check back here often.
See the rest of the links and resources at GenealogySoftwareGuide.com » Developers.
We have recently gone public beta with a project we developed in the
BYU Computer Science Department. It is a site that allows users to
contribute information about the existence / whereabouts of their
ancestors’ journals (and upload scanned images of the journal pages if
they wish), and also tag who is written about in the journals with
their corresponding PersonIDs from new FamilySearch. The site will
automatically check all journals and tags that have been contributed
to the system against users’ ancestors that are listed in new
FamilySearch and let them know if any of their ancestors have been
tagged or have journals in the system.
We have implemented an “invitation only” registration system in case
it starts growing faster than we can handle, but I’ll leave that
turned off until it starts looking like the server can’t keep up with
the growth rate. Right now anyone with an account on new FamilySearch
can create an account.
If you are interested in just taking a look, helping tag the journals
already referenced in the system, or adding reference information
about journals you know about that aren’t in the system, check out the
site at:
http://journals.byu.edu
-Doug
via collaborative project at BYU – BeyondGen | Google Groups.
