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rootsdev / gedcomx-js

JavaScript library for GEDCOM X
http://rootsdev.org/gedcomx-js/
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GEDCOM 5.5 to GEDCOM X JSON conversion #27

Closed tomeara closed 7 years ago

tomeara commented 7 years ago

I've been looking for a conversion tool to transform straight GEDCOM 5.5 into GEDCOM X according to the GEDCOM X v1 JSON serialization format. I've seen a couple of other JS projects (as well as the core Java implementation) but I want to output directly to JSON without .gedx being an intermediate format.

So I have 2 questions:

  1. I've been spending a bit of time googling for it, but is there already a GEDCOM X conversion tool that does what I want? I do not want to duplicate work, but there does not seem to be.
  2. If not, this project looks to be a great library to use to model the schema, but I'm unsure to whether or not a conversion feature would be desired here. I was planning on writing it separately, but is a conversion feature something that you'd like to be a part of this project?
justincy commented 7 years ago

I would love to see a tool that converts GEDCOM directly to GEDCOM X JSON but this repo isn't the proper place for it. What's your use case? Do you have a specific language or environment in mind where it needs to run?

I was thinking about this over the holidays. I'd love to have a pure JS lib so that it can be run client or server side. It would be published on npm with a cli wrapper. There would also be gh-pages where devs can use the tool for testing or perform quick one-off conversions.

tomeara commented 7 years ago

Yeah, I didn't think this repo would be the right place either, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't conflict with your work. :)

I have a .ged export from a older version from "Family Tree Maker" circa late 90s, and I want to get that export up-to-date with the most current spec; that looks to be GEDCOM X from everything I'm learning. Also, I want to get the data into a format (JSON) that I prefer working with.

Once I have that converted, I would like to start building another tool like Gramps in Electron. Nothing against Gramps; it looks like they've done great work. I just think it would be a fun side-project, and I definitely want to move our family's data to a more open solution in the same vein.

I'd certainly be into a cli package that would convert GEDCOM 5.5, and that's where I've been going with it so far. I've been building out the parsing module at the moment, but I haven't pushed anything up yet since my test fixtures are from my own data. If you could point me to a de-facto .ged file that I should use as a source, that would be great! I have run across .ged files like this: https://github.com/FamilySearch/Gedcom/blob/master/src/test/resources/Case001-AddressStructure.ged, but that doesn't seem to be as encompassing of different use cases. I'll also need to cover some edge cases that the FTM output gives me, but I can handle that fixture data if there isn't a good public source to use from them.

Once I get things pushed up, I'd love to get your input on what I have.

justincy commented 7 years ago

Regarding an Electron app, checkout work being done by John Clark on Treehub.

For GEDCOM test files, I'm not aware of anything beyond what a Google search would reveal. Oddly enough, I've never done any programmatic processing of GEDCOM files.

Keep me in the loop.