Hi John On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 10:20 +0100, John Dobson wrote: > Darren: GEDCOM was not designed or ever used as a database design / > schema. It was designed and sill operates today as a database backup > format. If you are developing a serious genealogy database you better > have an option to import / export GEDCOM or your product will not passed > first base. > > Ron: take a look at www.webtrees.net this is pretty much where things > are at for web based, collaborative genealogy products.
Interesting. I d/l-ed the source. At webtrees/setup.php, line 575 they start creating the db tables. My /impression/ is that they store a GEDCOM file, and from that extract a few things: o Individuals o Families o Places o Dates Also, they allow uploading of 'media', presumably sound and video. But is that sufficient? I assume not, since it implies to me they only store info which can be imported from a GEDCOM file (or perhaps added online, but which would nevertheless always be GEDCOM compatible). If I've misunderstood, please correct me. -- Ron Savage http://savage.net.au/ Ph: 0421 920 622
