Main Page

This is the document page for the GCD. The Grand Comic-Book Database (GCD) is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comic-book database. Any questions that aren't covered anywhere else can be directed to the [GCD Contact Email]. The database itself is searchable at http://www.comics.org.

Info about the GCD

• General FAQ
• The GCD Charter
• Email Lists FAQ
• Searching The GCD
• Glossary

Contributing to the GCD

• How To Contribute FAQ
• Indexing Online
• Indexing Offline
• Formatting Documentation
  • Indexing Variant Characters (multiple realities, rebooted characters, time travel, etc.)
• Covers FAQ
• Error List FAQ
• Series Skeleton Requirements How To Submit A Missing Title
• Reservations
• [Donations and Advertising]
• Data Distribution
• Useful indexer links

The information in these FAQs was originally written (at various times) by Bob Klein, Jonathan Ingersoll, Will Allred, Bob Heer, Jon Lovstad and Rob Sharp. It's been modified by the various members of the GCD-Tech list and information has been gathered from emails to various GCD Mailing lists. The current break-out and re-write was developed by Peter Croome with help from Tim Stroup and Jim Vandore.

Technical

• SourceForge Project
• Todo List for the New UI
• Suggestion Box for the New Site or Tools
• Current Schema (most recent data dump is here)
• New Schema
• New Site Testbed (may or may not be running or particularly functional)
• GCD's Bugzilla (still in development / testing)
• Getting Started on Windows - setting up a development environment

Knowledge Base

• Publishers, Imprints and Related Companies
• Significant Appearances

Legacy Documentation

These pages are being ported over from older documentation, and may be out of date or overlap with the documentation above. As they are updated and worked into the new documentation scheme their contents will move in the the main section.

• Editor wiki (finished porting from http://gcdeditordoc.pbwiki.com/ - 5 July 2008)