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Re: [PLUG] OT, but applicable -> Photo Family Tree
On 03 Aug, 2006, at 14:22, Malcolm J Harwood wrote:
There are a couple of existing web based apps that use the standard
GEDCOM
format (which is mostly portable, some apps seem to have their own
extensions
but the base data is portable).
The main the main thing to remember about GEDCOM is that it is like
some of the most recent IEEE "standards." The definition is so broad
that it allows for multiple interpretation and implementation.
The biggest benefit from GEDCOM is that it is human readable -- an
ASCII export!
The biggest danger with GEDCOM is that not all applications export
all their data!
(And often times the tags used are not what one expects.)
Then, on top of that, not all GEDCOM data is imported into other
applications.
[And far too frequently, neither the export nor import application
TELLS you what it is doing.]
Whenever you do a GEDCOM export and import you need to make certain
that the data you expect shows up in the fields you expect! ... like
when using OCR -- you have to carefully PROOFREAD what you have done
to make certain that you don't have unexpected results hiding.
Being a Mac type, I'm a fan of Reunion.
One caveat:
On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:13, Randy Schmidt wrote:
I also want it web-based because I am a data accessibility
snob. If I did make it public as a hosted app, I would make it so
that
people can export the photos and metadata in a form that is easy to
manipulate.
On its face, this is a very laudable idea. However, folks who are in
the Identity Theft business LOVE public family trees! They can pick
up your date of birth and your mother's maiden name with ease! So if
you post on the Internet, make certain that you do so with a secure
facility that won't get indexed by some search engine and that the
pages are password protected.
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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