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Welcome to the Grand Comic-Book Database!
Or really, welcome to our documentation! If you're looking for the actual database it's at http://www.comics.org.
The Grand Comic-Book Database (GCD) is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comic-book database. Any questions you have that aren't covered here can be directed to the GCD Contact email list.
Info about the GCD
The best way to learn about the GCD is to join our email lists, especially gcd-main which is where the day-to-day business of our project is discussed. We welcome new people! These links will provide some additional information:
- The GCD Charter
- Who's Who (Roles and Responsibilities)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Email Lists
- Searching the GCD
- Glossary
Contributing to the GCD
The GCD encourages contributions from everyone who is interested. The easiest way to contribute is to report errors through our Error Tracker] or to upload cover scans. The primary way for folks to contribute is to become an Indexer and add data for comics we don't yet have. Indexers may eventually become Editors, who review the work of Indexers and the incoming error reports and make corrections to existing data.
- Indexing (login)
- Adding or Improving Covers
- Reporting Errors with the Error Tracker
- Donations and Advertising
- Editor Documentation
Documentation contributors in roughly chronological order include: Bob Klein, Jonathan Ingersoll, Will Allred, Bob Heer, Jon Lovstad, Rob Sharp, Peter Croome, Tim Stroup, Jim Vandore, Henry Andrews and assorted GCD-Tech list folks.
Technical
- Web Site Project Page
- Code Reviews
- Bugzilla for Technical Issues (for the New Site only!)
- New Site Testbed (not always running!)
- Current Schema
- Current data dump: gcd_dev_data.zip
- Data Distribution FAQ
- New Schema
Contact the gcd-tech group for more information about any of the above.
More Stuff About Comics
...that doesn't quite fit in the database.