GENTECH99

You are invited to attend the GENTECH99 Tech Session.

GENTECH, the technology organization for genealogists, announces the Tech Session for GENTECH99 on Thursday evening, January 21st at the Salt Lake City Hilton. This event will kick off GENTECH99.

GENTECH has been hosting Tech Sessions at its annual conferences and at other national meetings since 1993. While the Tech Sessions are aimed at developers, they are attended by a wide variety of genealogists who have varying levels of interest and experience in applying technology to the craft of genealogy. No apology is made for the use of technical and genealogical jargon in these meetings.

Robert Charles Anderson, Director for Research of GENTECH is pleased to announce the GENTECH99 Tech Session, 7 PM to 9 PM, Thursday, 21 January 1999:

XML and Genealogy

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a new mark-up language, a subset of SGML, which is gaining rapidly as a partial replacement for HTML on the Web, and in other uses as well. Inasmuch as XML is intended for the markup of content (data) (and leaves the markup of structure and style to other markup languages), it is especially important to the field of computer genealogy, with its large databases and its need for electronic data transfer.

Bob Booth, who is in charge of GEDCOM development for the LDS church, will lead a discussion of XML and its applications to genealogy.