“New FamilySearch Web Services has spawned many Third-party products and an
active Developer Community”
FamilySearch has release Web Services for it New FamilySearch family tree.
This means that software companies in the genealogy marketplace can create
programmatic interfaces to read and write to the data in the New FamilySearch
using FamilySearch APIs (ie. Application Program Interfaces) The FamilySearch
APIs are “RESTful”, meaning they follow guiding principles of “Representational
State Transfer”. The FamilySearch APIs are simple as possible and
straightforward in their use. Request are made using parameters on the URL
address and results are returned with eXtensable Markeup Language (XML).
FamilySearch has created the DevNet.FamilySearch.org. website to facilitate
the marketing and utilization of these new web services. FAQs and hundreds of
Knowledge Articles are available to the public. Registered Developers will be
able to receiv a higher level of support, download complete documentation and
sample code, engage in forum discussions, review news and events posted by
FamilySearch and other developers. All of the benefits and agreements for
FamilySearch Developer Services and FamilySearch Affiliates programs are easily
accessible from this new website. Developers are building this new community by
joining, sharing ideas and code, and actively participating in forums, news,
events, and the FamlySearch Affiliates programs.
In the beginning of the API development, a few Web Service Affiliates
contributed greatly to the design and testing of the initial web services and
they will soon be offering compatible products. Specifically, Generation Maps,
Incline Software, Millennia Corp, Ohana Software, Progeny Software, RedBugz
Software, and Roots Magic worked closely with FamilySearch until the web
services we released the end of last year. Many developers are becoming
FamilySearch Affiliates so that they can benefit from increase website
privileges and co-marketing opportunities through the use of the FamilySearch
Certified Logo.
All these new offerings and services will be showcased the week of the
FamilySearch Developers Conference, March 12, 2008 at the BYU Conference Center.
The purpose of of the conference is to learn from FamilySearch engineers and
community developers about the new FamilySearch Web Services (API) and best
practices for consuming them in a variety of popular software environments. (go
to
http://devnet.familysearch.org/Members/clarkegj/march-3-2008-familysearch-developers-conference
)
Independent or commercial software developers and invited to attend many
presentations, labs, and sessions. They keynote and conference theme is “Brave
New Platform: Changing the World of Genealogy”. Compatible Third-party products
will be showcased at the BYU Family History Technology Workshop and Computerized
Gealogy Conference, March 13-15th. (see http://www.fht.byu.edu/ and
http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwcompu/ )
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