Session #1: Extraction and Markup of Genealogical Data
HTML5 Microdata Markup for Genealogy Sites, Robert Gardner and Dave Barney, GooglePaper
Extracting and Organizing Facts of Interest from OCRed Historical Documents, Joseph S. Park and David W. Embley, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Glyph Matching for Text Extraction on Headstones, Glen Chidester, Brigham Young University
Session #2: Improving the User Experience
Motivational Interfaces, or, Everything I Need to Know about Family Trees I Learned from Angry Birds, Charles D. Knutson, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Using Smartphones to Preserve Genealogical Information, Peter Ivie, Richard Ivie, Ray Ivie, and Evan L. Ivie, GeneSys FoundationPaper
Solving Cycling Pedigrees or “Loops” by Analyzing Birth Ranges and Parent-Child Relationships, Alan B. Cannaday II, FamilySearchPaper
Using Visualization and Search to Locate Genealogy Holes, Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Demo and Poster Session
Alternative Approaches for Storage of Pedigree Data, Dale Lowry, FamilySearch
Beyond the Relationship Calculator: Using a Weighted Relationship Distance Metric to Prioritize, Categorize and Visualize Relatives, Ben Baker, FamilySearchPaper
Finding Related Records Across Disparate Collections Using the Nearest Neighbor Approach, Daniel Roper
Genealogy Through Geography, Peter and Evan Ivie, GeneSys Foundation
Beyond GEDCOM: Modeling Genealogical Source Record Data, D. Randall Wilson, FamilySearchPaperPoster
Using Visualization and Search to Locate Genealogy Holes, Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young Universityleaf
Green ICR:Semi-Automated Census Record Indexing with Emphasis on Human Computer Interaction, Robert Clawson, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Many Author-Handwriting Recognition Using a Warping-Based Approach, Douglas J. Kennard, William A. Barrett, and Thomas W. Sederberg, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Better Historical Document Indexing Using Waypointing and ROI Data, Kevin Bauer, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Glyph Matching for Text Extraction on Headstones, Glen Chidester, Brigham Young University
Virtual Pedigree, Ryan Cheatham, Brigham Young University
Session #3: Handwriting Recognition
Evaluation of Handwriting Recognition Systems for Application to Historical Records, Patrick Schone, Heath Nelson, Mark Ward, FamilySearchPaper
Many Author-Handwriting Recognition Using a Warping-Based Approach, Douglas J. Kennard, William A. Barrett, and Thomas W. Sederberg, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Populating Ontologies with Data from Lists in OCRed Family History Books, Thomas L. Packer and David W. Embley, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Session #4: Historical Documents and Indexing
Binarization Algorithms for Historical Text Documents: A Survey and implementations, Oliver Nina and Matthew Stofflet, University of Central FloridaPaper
OntoSoar: Using Language to Find Genealogy Facts, Peter Lindes, Deryle Lonsdale, David Embley, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Green ICR:Semi-Automated Census Record Indexing with Emphasis on Human Computer Interaction, Robert Clawson and William Barrett, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Better Historical Document Indexing Using Waypointing and ROI Data, Kevin Bauer, Brigham Young UniversityPaper
Keynote Ancestry.com and Big Data: Solving Family History Problems for Users, Bill Yetman, Ancestry.com