Power-Post 2K wrote:
> 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
There is some discussion about this on the microformats.org web site
see: http://microformats.org/wiki/genealogy
Certainly it is something I've considered for my future endeavours (i.e.
once I'm no longer involved with familyhistoryonline.net) but it does
seem to need a bit of work for genealogy purposes.
Chad
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