RE: GEDCOM to Wiki, anyone?

What are you using as a schema?

--hsm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:09 PM
> To: Jim Seymour
> Cc: Mike Hamilton; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: GEDCOM to Wiki, anyone?
> 
> 
> As an alternate to this approach,
> 
> I maintain my genealogy in FalimyTree maker and dump a GEDCOM 
> file that 
> gets loaded into a database. This is then used to serve 
> genealogy pages. 
> The database is a drop and reload when I have new data. and I 
> maintain 
> the INDI ids to preserve continuity of bookmarks.
> 
> http://swoodbridge.com/family/Woodbridge/
> 
> The application hides people that are living unless you have a family 
> login. There is some risk that someone could hack it, but 
> then they can 
> dumpster dive also.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> Jim Seymour wrote:
> > Mike Hamilton wrote:
> >> I did some preliminary work on exactly this quite some 
> years back. I
> >> think I can claim to know the Paul's (excellent) Gedcom 
> module pretty
> >> well, having used it to generate custom charts, etc.
> > 
> > Well, then...  I may start hitting you up for some advice...  :-)
> > 
> >> But there's a huge problem to which I could find no answer; what
> >> happens when somebody makes a change? These should update 
> the Gedcom 
> >> file, which would often have a flow-on effect to the rest 
> of the Wiki, 
> >> which would need regenerating.
> > 
> > In my case, this is not a problem.  The GEDCOM file is merely a 
> > one-time transport mechanism.  Once the pages are up, my Wiki will 
> > become the official repository.
> > 
> > In other words, this conversion is a one-way trip.
> > 
> >> I used MediaWiki, but I see that DokuWiki "makes sure the datafiles
> >> remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of 
> structured
> >> texts", so it looks a much better choice.
> > 
> > Yes, this is the main reason I chose DokuWiki.  The pages 
> are stored 
> > as plain text files.  When I first got the Wiki running, I 
> generated 
> > most of the initial pages by converting them from HTML 
> pages (using a 
> > quick one-shot perl script).
> > 
> >> Sorry I couldn't give Jim a more positive and useful response
> > 
> > Not a problem.  I'll be spending some time on this project this 
> > weekend. When I'm done, I'll try to include a page on my wiki about 
> > the conversion process (in case others might find it useful in the 
> > future).
> > 
>