kapstok / gedcom-migrator

Useful for migration of Gedcom data to any other form of data, such as a database or JSON file.

Gedcom migrator

Gedcom is a standard that misses

1. Flexibility, such as the ability to do complex refactors or adding custom fields.
2. Displaying gedcom data in a (web) application is non-trivial and requires a library.
3. Usability. Performing complicated queries on gedcom directly is not possible.

This is an attempt to provide a generic implementation for migrating gedcom data to another form of data, such as a database. Personally I will use implementation for migrating to a new sqlite database.

Structure

This multi-module project consists of three modules:

 - gedcom-migrator
 |--- migration-library
 |--- sqlite

gedcom-migrator is the main pom. It does not generate a JAR.

migration-library is a generic library to make a migration from Gedcom easier and more correct.

sqlite is an implementation that uses migration-library for migrating Gedcom data to Sqlite.

It will be likely that sqlite will not directly be useful for your use case. But you can use the source code as an example for creating your own implementation, using migration-library as dependency.

Running

To get the sqlite compiling and running, execute

mvn clean install
mvn exec:java -pl :sqlite