Hi Richard, I'm glad you like our software. Regarding GEDCOM, is it possible to convert it to XML or Excel spreadsheet or tab separated values files? If so, it will be easier for us to support it. And by the way, what features do you want that GenBox doesn't already offer?
Please keep us posted with your experiments with Exhibit. We want to know what's good and what's bad about it. Best, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > First a disclaimer: I am not a professional computer science person, > just someone with very moderate computer skills interested in using > Exhibit to build a family website. > > I Googled upon the paper on Exhibit by Huynh et al, from WWW2007 > recently, and it was a eureka moment for me. I have long hoped to be > able to use fairly complex parallel timelines and maps on a family > website that I hope to build. After giving up this quest about a year > ago in frustration, I was excited to read your paper. Your Exhibit > approach seems to bypass my main stumbling blocks--dealing with servers > and related software and database issues, which are beyond my present > skill level. > > My point in writing is to ask if you would consider developing a > converter from the GEDCOM format (used extensively to publish and share > genealogical data) to, say, Exhibit JSON? (I suppose this would be the > most appropriate format, but I am far from an expert here). I should > mention that the genealogical software I use exports in both a GenBox > database format and also in GEDCOM format. Being able to convert the > GenBox format to Exhibit would be ideal for me, but I am suggesting the > GEDCOM conversion at present only because it is more commonly used and > would probably be a better investment of your time. But if you could > manage a way to convert both formats, so much the better. > > At present I do not have my own website (still no broadband out here in > the woods of Interior Alaska). Until then, I am trying to work out how > to use Exhibit and develop materials at home . The other day I had my > first success displaying a picture and related text regarding one of my > relative's by interacting with the Simile-MIT computer--a Yippee! > moment--and am now struggling to expand that initial success. PS: The js > file Validator was a big help. > > I am currently running XP Pro on my Dell desktop, but will also be > running XP Pro SP2 using "Parallels Desktop for the Mac, v. 5160" on a > MacBook Pro Core Duo Laptop using OSX 10.4.10, especially when visiting > relatives in the "lower 48." My genealogical software program is GenBox > 3.6.5. > > Finally, I want to thank David Huynh and all involved in the project for > making this possible. Amazing work, guys. I'd be glad to answer any > questions you may have for me. > > --Richard McCaffrey > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
