This will be of direct interest to the genealogy community.

This will be of direct interest to the genealogy community.
h/t to Tony Proctor 

Originally shared by Tony Proctor

http://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/2015/03/16/collaboration-standards-required-for-internet-of-things/

The problem for historians (incl. family history, micro-history, and genealogy in general) is that the "things" in the Internet-of-Things may no longer exist. This applies to people (obviously) but also to places, groups, and the relationships between all of  these. I have yet to see a computer taxonomy of such things that can be used for historical data without bending it to meet modern nomenclature and definitions.

I do hope that the building of IoT will, one day, talk to groups such as FHISO (http://fhiso.org) about what is needed in this field.
http://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/2015/03/16/collaboration-standards-required-for-internet-of-things