[OpenGLAM] BillionGraves index/images now available through FamilySearch

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi Todd,

Just curious what you're hoping to use this content for or who you hope 
to partner with?

 From a volunteer stand point it interests me a lot - I photograph 
graveyards and document memorials and "the dead" on Wikipedia, and this 
kind of metadata would be valuable for infoboxes and maybe Wikidata. 
Thanks for sharing the updates,

Sarah

On 12/17/12 9:43 PM, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I had submitted the message below back in June to the Open GLAM [1] 
> and Open Humanities [2] (both OKFN lists) and never saw a response, so 
> I thought I'd revisit the topic. I've been working on various projects 
> lately having to do with local history and civic data. I typed up a 
> very preliminary, but potential schema for *Open Gravestones* (a once 
> dreamed about OKFN project of which I can't seem to find the EtherPad 
> discussion [James Harriman-Smith, any idea?]). Here's a schema example 
> as a JSON serialization:
>
> {
> "name": {
> "surname": "Schmidt",
> "given": "John",
> "middle": "Jacob Jingleheimer",
> "suffix": "[string]",
> "additional": "[string]",
> "patronymic": "[string]",
> "maternalSurname": "[string]",
> "paternalSurname": "[string]"
> },
>
> "birth": {
> "year": "1808",
> "month": "1",
> "day": "1",
> "place": "Berlin, Germany"
> },
> "death": {
> "year": "1888",
> "month": "1",
> "day": "1",
> "place": "Berlin, Germany"
> },
>
> "burial": {
> "year": "1888",
> "month": "3",
> "day": "13",
> "place": "Berlin, Germany",
> "graveNumber": "[integer]",
> "mortuary": "[string]",
> "comment": "[string]",
> "block": "[integer]",
> "tract": "[integer]",
> "lot": "[integer]",
> "space": "[integer]",
> "segment": "[integer]",
> "level": "[integer]"
> },
> "headstone": {
> "type": "upright",
> "material": "granite",
> "color": "grey",
> "comment": "long"
> }
> }
>
> I understand the keys and/or values of the example are fairly Western 
> and at this point don't represent the kind of broad terminology we 
> would require. I've been sketching up other versions of the data model 
> and potential applications over the past few months as well. I'd love 
> to get some movement going on an open source burial grounds data 
> platform as genealogical data remains very popular and up until now 
> very is dominated by closed data providers. GEDCOM X [3], 
> FamilySearch's genealogical data standard project, will likely touch 
> on this topic, but it's not clear when that will be or what the 
> licenses will be. Anyhow, I hope this email gets a conversation going.
>
> Cheers!
>
> -Tod
>
> [1] http://openglam.org/
> [2] http://humanities.okfn.org/
> [3] http://www.gedcomx.org/
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <mailto:todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>* 
> <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <mailto:todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>>
> Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:08 PM
> Subject: BillionGraves index/images now available through FamilySearch
> To: open-glam at lists.okfn.org <mailto:open-glam at lists.okfn.org>, 
> open-humanities at lists.okfn.org <mailto:open-humanities at lists.okfn.org>
>
>
> So I've been on the sidelines of the discussion about a potential Open 
> Gravestones project [1] within OKFN and have been following the 
> BillionGraves [2] project. The index/images are now available through 
> FamilySearch, though lacking any declaration of openness about the 
> data. [3]
>
> There are nearly one million records so far, and I'm wondering if OKFN 
> and others (the Open Genealogy Alliance [4], for example) would be 
> interested in entering talks with FamilySearch and BillionGraves about 
> adopting Creative Commons or Open Definition licenses for these types 
> of (generally) public domain documents. Since FamilySearch is the 
> largest genealogical organization in the world, I figure this could be 
> a worthy project to invest some thought and time.
>
> I'd love to get Open Gravestones going and I'm curious of your thoughts.
>
> [1] http://humanities.okfn.org/2012/02/17/meeting-2012-02-15/
> [2] http://billiongraves.com/
> [3] See: https://familysearch.org/node/1714 and 
> https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/2026973
> [4] http://www.opengenalliance.org/
>
>
> -- 
> Tod Robbins
> Digital Collections Librarian, MLIS
> todrobbins.com <http://todrobbins.com/> | @todrobbins 
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>
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