Speakers
Michel Brinckman
Michel Brinckman studied Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology.
He is co-founder and technical director of Mindbus, a full-service internet e-commerce bureau,
best known in Dutch genealogy circles for building the WieWasWie site
for the Central Bureau of Genealogy, and the Archive-to-Archive (A2A) data exchange format.
His presentation, The A2A Data Model and its application in WieWasWie
is about both these things.
@michelbrinckman, Google+: Michel Brinckman, mindbus, mindbus blog.
Bob Coret
Bob Coret studied Computer Science at the University of Twente
and has worked as an IT architect for several IT companies.
He is well known in genealogy circles for genealogy web sites an services, most notably
Genealogie Online for online publishing of trees,
Stamboom Forum for online discussions,
and Familie Archivaris for family photos and stories.
His presentation, Open Genealogy Data in the Netherlands,
provides an overview of knowledge he gained developing Open Archives,
a search engine for open genealogy and family history data.
Louis Kessler
Louis Kessler is a long-time software developer and genealogist from Winnipeg, Canada
who participated in computer chess championships back in the 1970s.
He is past president of The Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada,
and was actively involved in BetterGEDCOM and FHISO.
He is the creator of the Behold genealogy application for Windows,
and blogs about the many aspects of developing of this application on his Behold Blog.
He also created the GenSoftReviews site,
and was the driving force behind the creation of the
Genealogy and Family History Q&A Community on StackExchange.
His presentation, Reading wrong GEDCOM right
discusses real-world issues software developers encounter when developing their GEDCOM reader.
@louiskessler, Google+: Louis Kessler, Behold Genealogy, Behold blog.
Timo Kracke
Timo Kracke has been doing genealogy for some 17 years,
is an officer for several German genealogy societies,
including the Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (CompGen, Computer Genealogy Society of Germany),
and the host of the Der Genealoge (The Genealogist) podcast.
His presentation, GOV: The Genealogical Gazetteer API
explains how this CompGen project meets the need for unique place identification.
@genkracke, Google+: Timo Kracke, Genealogie Familien Kracke & Schneider, Der Genealoge.
Marijn Schraagen
Marijn Schraagen has a Master in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
from the Utrecht University and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano joint degree programme.
He is currently engaged in PhD research in the Algorithms and Software Technology research programme of
the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS).
His presentation, Algorithms for Historical Record Linkage
is based on work done for the NWO Catch LINKS project,
which focussed on automated family reconstruction from digitised BMD indexes.