Recently I installed the Operator add-on to Firefox
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106>.
Using microformats, this add-on detects some kinds of information and
provides drop down menus for pursuing them (Contacts, Events,
Locations, Tagspaces, Bookmarks, and Resources).
This got me thinking about Zotero (another Firefox add-on) which can
detect bibliographic entries from many different sources.
I recently discovered that there's an online database for victims of
Auschwitz <http://www.auschwitz.org.pl>.
I was going through it and
found quite a number of people I'd like to add to my database. How
"great" would it be if I could just click one or two things, and
automatically im****t that entry, properly formatted, into my database.
So this got me to thinking: how come someone hasn't yet utilized
microformats with the genealogical sites? It could be done easily
with Ancestry.com (since the information appears to be regularly
formatted), and no doubt many other sites.
Are there any attempts to do this, or work on this?
(If I knew programming I would try.)
Bob Kosovsky
New York City
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