Re: Xaraya for family & genealogy website?

Reply see below...

[email protected] wrote:
> Some thoughts. Such a module would likely consist of 2 parts:
> 
> 1. A detail display of a person in the modules db.
> This would include various text areas, pictures etc.
> The display would need to be configurable because folks documenting 
> their family history tend to have different opinions as to what kind of 
> data is important and how it is to be presented.
> 
Do you mean able to set previlages level for certain datas (sensitive 
personal info)? I agree.
Also, as in PGV chart (hourglass chart ie tree), the info visible is 
very limited. I would like the genealogy module to be able to display 
more than just name, birth, death (date). Maybe aliases etc...

> One also needs consider things like references to sources, perhaps 
> access to a common picture gallery, links to other sites for cross 
> referencing, comments to the single persons and so on. While DD I think 
> pretty much already offers the tools to implement this, this part of the 
> module would involve a lot of initial design discussion.

Would xaraya's DD be able to handle thousands of records? IIRC there was 
a posting in PGV forum that PGV has some issue with a GEDCOM file with 
25,000 individual records.

My family records has reach around > 500 individuals :)

> 
> 2. Navigation functionality
> This part is less a question of design: you basically need a tree/matrix.
> Xaraya currently has this in the roles module, but hijacking users for 
> this purpose makes little sense, so really a new tree needs to be 
> created. Happily although this involves some grunt work, it's not really 
> that hard. (It's also the part I'm most interested in)

Yes, graphical representation of family tree is essential to me. :)

> Finally, a genealogy module would need to consider some further specific 
> wrinkles:
> 
> "Multilinguality": this sort of boils down to name aliases, i.e. a 
> person can be known by different different names and spellings. For the 
> spelling problems the soundex system gives a sort of standard, at least 
> in a single language, but then we have cases like:
> 
> Richard the Lionheart/Richard of Aquitaine/Richard Coeur de Lion
> 
Would the below be appropriate... following GEDCOM format
eg.

01 INDI @I33@       <---- ie individual with tag no. I33
02   NAME Richard the Lionheart
02   ALIA Richard of Aquitaine   <---- Alias
02   ALIA Richard Coeur de Lion  <---- Alias

or something similar. Im not to familiar with GEDCOM, but I think the 
above is OK.

> Data import/export: as a minimum the GEDCOM format needs to be 
> considered, which for better or worse is the genealogical standard.
> 
> Marc

Agree. ability to import/export GEDCOM format is important. Im more 
incline to GEDCOM 5.5 rather than the 6.0 (ie GEDCOM XML format).

Banzai