Re: [Gramps-devel] GEDCOM work

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 13:24 -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> Don Allingham wrote:
> > FACT is gedcom 5.5.1
>=20
> Ahhh, thanks.
>=20
> Do you/anybody know: is this "draft" receiving recognition in the
> general community?

This is the latest spec available, and we are seeing GEDCOM files with
these newer features. And since it is 8 years old, it isn't anything
leading edge.

> Another dumb question: is there really any official standards group,
> since LDS has (if I understand correctly) abandoned work on 6.0 and/or
> ongoing development?
>=20
> What is the future of genealogy standards?

=46rom what I've seen as of today, there is no future for genealogy
standards. GEDCOM 6.0 was abandoned. There have been a few XML formats
(including the GRAMPS format), but as far as I know, only the GRAMPS XML
has been implemented, and that only by GRAMPS :-)

And there is no official standards body. The LDS Church is not a
standards body - they defined GEDCOM to meet their needs, not
necessarily the general needs of genealogy.

Gentech defined a very intricate and complicated data model (that as far
as I know, no one implements), but that is a database conceptual model,
not an interchange file format.=20

Don