This project, dealing specifically with standards for recording proper names, dates and places, was undertaken by Gary Mokotoff.

Initially (in the first half of 2007), Mokotoff endeavored to work with a team of well-known experts who, it transpired, lacked the cohesiveness and will to engage in a collaborative venture, aimed at elaborating a common standard for genealogy in general. Mokotoff therefore elected to pursue the project on his own, seeking advice and assistance as required.

In the summer of 2008, he produced a Proposed Standard for Names, Dates and Places in a Genealogical Database. This proposal was reviewed by more than ten specialists who offered comments on the draft work as it progressed (without necessarily endorsing the standard as a whole).

Click here for the proposal as published by Mokotoff in AVOTAYNU, XXIV, 3 (Fall, 2008), pp. 3-6

Mokotoff would welcome comments on, and suggestions for improvements to, his proposal. They should be sent to garymokotoff@avotaynu.com.