I had a wonderful couple of days in Leiden, Netherlands. I live tweeted the two events I attended and included pictures of some of the people I had the pleasure to meet.
Here are the highlights of Gaenovium on Tuesday through some of my tweets and tweets of others:
Heading over to the Pviljoen in Leiden for the #Gaenovium
Conference pic.twitter.com/G6NbJrAcF8
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 7, 2014
The first talk was Bob Coret: Open Genealogy Data in The Netherlands.
Program started @gaenovium
Where genealogy meets tech #gaenovium
pic.twitter.com/wQe8JOzcx7
— Denie Kasan (@deniekasan) October 7, 2014
"Archives not only need to preserve data, but to make it available" - Bob Coret #Gaenovium
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 7, 2014
#Gaenovium
pleased to see presentations on sharing #archive
records. Open data makes good collaboration possible
— Sue Adams (@sue_familyfolk) October 7, 2014
The second talk was Marijn Schraagen: Algorithms for Historical Record Linkage
New algorithm to quickly find "distance" between all names on a million name index. MarijnSchraagen #Gaenovium
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 7, 2014
Marijn Schraagen built a model for automatic name reduction and matching that's accurate and scales better than other algorithms #Gaenovium
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 7, 2014
The third talk was: Michel Brinckman: The A2A Data Model and its application in WieWasWie.
@michelbrinckman
about archive to archive format #opendata
#gaenovium
pic.twitter.com/PtQfyeNHwy
— Denie Kasan (@deniekasan) October 7, 2014
A2A is a standard created for data exchange between archives presented #Gaenovium
by @michelbrinckman
that should be considered by #fhiso
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 7, 2014
The fourth talk was: Timo Kracke: GOV: The Genealogical Gazetteer API.
TimoKracke @genkracke
speaks about http://t.co/hZvgEBWu8j
a Genealogical Gazetteer for unique place identification #Gaenovium
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 7, 2014
The last talk was mine: Louis Kessler: Reading wrong GEDCOM right.
@louiskessler
gaat dieper in op GEDCOM; geschiedenis, versies, mogelijkheden. (Louis Kessler elaborates on GEDCOM; history, versions, features) #gaenovium
#genealogie
pic.twitter.com/sEjzksFpo7
— MyHeritage Nederland (@MyHeritageNL) October 7, 2014
#gaenovium
@louiskessler
speaking on GEDCOM. Best practices are needed to overcome an imperfect specification.
— Sue Adams (@sue_familyfolk) October 7, 2014
#GEDCOM
Research by @louiskessler
shows that only 43% of genealogy records have a source! #gaenovium
"Genealogistsneed to add more sources"
— DenieKasan(@deniekasan) October 7, 2014
Talking about GEDCOM 5.5EL from our GEDCOM Mailingliste/Projectteam #Gaenovium
@louiskessler
pic.twitter.com/Qr5zYreke1
— CompGen(@compgenDE) October 7, 2014
#gaenovium
@louiskessler
over fouten in #GEDCOM
's van verschillende partijen was bijwijlen hallucinant en zeker heel leerzaam.(louiskessler about errors in GEDCOMs of various parties was sometimes hallucinatory and certainly very instructive.)(
— Peter Eyckerman(@peyck) October 8, 2014
Then was the panel discussion: Panel Discussion: Current & Future Genealogical Exchange Standards.
Heel interessantedag #gaenovium
tot nu toe. Laatste deel panelgesprek begint nu. (Very interesting day Gaenovium so far. Last part panel discussion starts now.)
— Peter Eyckerman(@peyck) October 7, 2014
#Gaenovium
panel discussion @pgmoir
@sue_familyfolk
@louiskessler
@coret
pic.twitter.com/qOP7Hu9GO8
— TimoA. Kracke(@genkracke) October 7, 2014
And the after-conference meal.
After #gaenovium
the conference participants enjoy a meal together at the Asian Palace restaurant. pic.twitter.com/MobwYWvrKY
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 7, 2014
With Nick Matthews and Sue Adams @sue_familyfolk
after #gaenovium
pic.twitter.com/pGloZVdlWY
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 8, 2014
Some final comments.
Great day at #gaenovium
. Small and friendly, but some very interesting ideas for #genealogy
and global resources. Thanks to organisers
— Phil Moir(@pgmoir) October 7, 2014
I liked the #gaenovium
conference :-) Especially the gedcomlecture! Now I have to quickly change my UTF8 gedcomexport to v. 5.5.1, oops…
— HuMo-gen (@HuMo_gen) October 7, 2014
The next day, Wednesday, there was a family history trade show called Famillement, and many of the Gaenovium participants were there.
70+ vendors at the genealogical trade show #Famillement
in the beautiful HooglandseKerkthe day after #gaenovium
pic.twitter.com/3lFvTWS7CE
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 8, 2014
Gunter Junkers explains the German Genealogy database to an interested party. #Famillement
pic.twitter.com/phW8I6gRdG
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 8, 2014
MarijnSchraagenshowing how his family name matching algorithms work. #Famillement
http://t.co/6HJb4h6DUl
pic.twitter.com/rlSz4mg0xb
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 8, 2014
University student Julia Efremova with @DenieKasan
of @MyHeritage
at #Famillement
pic.twitter.com/JHzGN2nyEg
— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) October 8, 2014
Louis Kessler flew in from Canada to present Reading Wrong GEDCOM Right, and did two blog posts on his Behold blog