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I just got an invite to a FamilySearch Webinar. I imagine you are supposed to be a member of the developer group to attend, but I doubt they would throw you out. Here’s the details:
FamilySearch Developer WebinarJoseph Smith Memorial Building (JSMB) 5th Floor, West Lobby Conference Room 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Agenda:

Introduce Robert [...]

I am in the Ruby-fs API presentation now. Funding for the library came from USFamilyTree.com.
It is REST based.
Data model is:
Person
Person has many Assertions
Assertion has one Contributor, Citation(not yet implemented), Note
Each person has a lot of data associated with them so you don’t want to be parsing xml data on the [...]

We’re back from lunch. I had a great chat with Alan Braverman the CTO & founder of Geni. They are doing some cool things by connecting living people with their families and to the larger family graph. They also let you upload photos and other digital assets then assemble that [...]

What do we read out of family search?

Person Information
Search Match
Authorities Data - places
LDS Ordinance Information

Objects available in the new FamilySearch

Person
Search Data
Contributor Information
Place Standardization Data

Can output XML, JSON, and XML-FastInfoset. Request can be gzipped if client supported.
Locate a resource via NFS Id - ‘KWCD-QBC’, Ancestral File Number - ‘afn.2bW3-9H’ or Gedcom UID.
Examples:
https://api.familysearch.org/familytree/v1/person/KWCD-QBC?sessionId=MMMM
https://api.familysearch.org/authorities/v1/place/933423?sessionId=MMMM
https://api.familysearch.org/v1/search?name=Isreal+Hoyt+heaton?sessionId=MMMM
Get the [...]

If these posts don’t make sense sorry. They are for my notes.
API is based on REST. A lot of data is sensitive so they use SSL to secure data transfer. Prefer XML elements over XML attributes. Everything is UTF-8 encoded. Right now user access is limited to LDS members. [...]

A couple of developers from Creative Commons were at the code sprint last week. It is fun to interact with guys who are making the world a better place. Creative Commons latest move was to make it easy to get to 1.8 million pages of case law. Here’s some more information and [...]