FamilySearch/GEDCOM

Additional KIND enumerated values for BIRT and DEAT

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cdhorn commented

Seeing the merge of #322 it seems if that is the direction please consider adding the following KIND enumeration sets:

For BIRT:

  • Natural
  • Cesarean

For DEAT:

  • Natural
  • Accidental
  • Murdered
  • Executed
  • Euthanized
  • In Surgery
  • In Battle
dthaler commented

Discussion in GEDCOM Steering Committee 9 MAY 2024:

  • Some of these may overlap with the use of the CAUS tag.
  • Some might not be well-defined.
  • Agreed in general that this discussion is useful, and we welcome more input.
dthaler commented

Although some might overlap with CAUS, the CAUS tag has the same issue as TYPE which is that it's a human readable string (that may also vary by language) not a unique identifier like KIND is and so doesn't support high-fidelity matching like KIND would.

Norwegian-Sardines commented

Is there a definition of “KIND”.

As far as “human readable”, at this point all tags and enum value are/should be in English, and all should be well defined so that any program can translate the English value to their native tongue. This is already done in the program I use for tags and v5.5.1 enum values. For cases when a concept is not directly translatable, the definitions could include these terms in the definition to ease translations, but also allow for other/phrase options.

dthaler commented

Discussion in GEDCOM Steering Committee meeting 23 MAY 2024:

  • The KIND tag does not exist in any non-defunct branch. It was merged into the next-minor branch which was abandoned in favor of the v7.1 branch that does not have KIND.
  • Issue 448 tracks potential addition to v7.1.
  • There is a proposed definition of KIND in PR #322 which might be useful.