So it sounds like you are also a Ruby developer. I'm in the process of
writing some API wrappers for upcoming and current FamilySearch APIs. I'm
using HappyMapper w/ libxml-ruby for the xml parsing/creation. If you're
interested, check out my github projects:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Ben Brumfield <benwb
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much for the link! I'll look for the RecordSearch API
> to become GA -- I didn't know that that was in the works.
> Your evaluation of API availability matches my own -- it's
> FamilySearch or nothing right now. I'm not above building a few
> HPricot scripts, however, and will let you know what I come up with.
> -Ben
> On Mar 30, 9:37 pm, jimmy zimmerman <jimmy.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> > I'm unaware of any other APIs that are open at this time. I'd be excited
> to
> > try out new APIs if anyone knows about any.
> > Currently, the FamilySearch API is only available to members of the LDS
> > church, but that will not always be the case. I'm anxiously awaiting the
> > time when it will be open to the entire world, but FamilySearch engineers
> > are working through some things before the "New FamilySearch"
> > application/API can be released worldwide.
> > You may want to watch for the FamilySearch RecordSearch API to become
> > available later this year. It will give waypoints and searchability to a
> > large amount of record collections. When it is released, it will be
> > available to the general public. You can learn more about it from the
> > FamilySearch Developers Conference recorded presentations (in case you
> > weren't able to attend that conference).http://tr.im/hKoL
> > --
> > Jimmy Z
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Ben Brumfield <benwb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Some of the twitter around Douglas Kennard's FHT09 presentation ("Word-
> > > Spotting for Automatic Tag Suggestion in the BYU Historic Journals
> > > Project") has got me thinking about mining genealogy sites for names
> > > that occur within a text.
> > > In particular, I'd like to programmatically search for people matching
> > > name X, who would have been alive in date Y in location Z. After
> > > identifying that person, I'd also want to traverse their siblings,
> > > children, aunts and uncles for suggested matches to other names within
> > > the text.
> > > Does anyone have recommendations for open websites or APIs for pulling
> > > this sort of data from? (I've investigated the FamilySearch API, but
> > > the TOS bars users who are not members of the LDS church).
> > > Relevant tweets:
> > >http://twitter.com/danhanks/statuses/1316547238
> > >http://twitter.com/danhanks/statuses/1316508098
> > >http://twitter.com/danhanks/statuses/1316779811
> > > More information about Douglas Kennard's project should be presented
> > > at JCDL 2009.
> > > -Ben
> > --
> > Jimmy Zimmermanhttp://jimmyzimmerman.com
