On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 04:30:44PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > hello, perl-gedcom!
Hello! > I'm trying to design a WWW social networking site and would like to be > able to model relationships between people, including genealogical > relationships. STFW, I came across Gedcom.pm and this mailing list. > > > Following the subscription instructions for this mailing list given on > the following page resulted in a failure message from MAILER-DAEMON (at) > icomm (dot) ca: > > http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=Perl-GEDCOM > > I am attempting to contact the webmaster. Unfortunately that page is generally regarded as dead, and I've had no success in getting it updated. However, it's been quite a while since I last tried so I wish you well there. > I successfully followed the subscription instructions on the following > page: > > http://www.miskatonic.org/pg/ > > The page states: > > There are no archives online right now, but that may change. > > STFW, I found this: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-gedcom@perl.org/maillist.html Nice detective work. There's also http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.gedcom/ which, I suppose, would be regarded as canonical. > Gedcom.pm provides the following link to the GEDCOM 5.5 specification: > > ftp://gedcom.org/pub/genealogy/gedcom/gedcom55.zip > > But, gedcom.org seems to be down. I can't seem to find the file via > archive.org or google.com. Does anybody have a link to the current > GEDCOM specification/ standard/ documentation? I suspect the standard would be linked to from here: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Home/FAQ/faq_gedcom.asp Unfortunately, you'll need a Windows machine to get to that. gedcom.org is also owned by the LDS church so I see no reason that shouldn't also be regarded as standard but the site still seems to be down. If it's still down later today after the USA has woken up, I'll see if I can find someone to nudge about it. I'm sorry, it really shouldn't be this difficult. If you are just looking for the grammar, then http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PJCJ/Gedcom-1.16/gedcom-5.5.grammar is a pretty faithful representation of what's in the standard. (If I recall correctly I had to make a few minor corrections.) However, Darren's point is a good one, and it may be that GEDCOM isn't the best fit for your requirements. But good luck, and please let us know what you come up with. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
