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This is the documentation 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 [mailto:[email protected] GCD Contact email list].  The database itself is searchable at http://www.comics.org.
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 [mailto:[email protected] GCD Contact email list].


==Info about the GCD==
==Info about the GCD==
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* [[Data Distribution]]
* [[Data Distribution]]
* [[Useful indexer links]]
* [[Useful indexer links]]
* [[Editor wiki]]


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.
FAQ contributors include: Bob Klein, Jonathan Ingersoll, Will Allred, Bob Heer, Jon Lovstad, Rob Sharp, Peter Croome, Tim Stroup, Jim Vandore and assorted GCD-Tech list folks.


==Technical==
==Technical==


* [[Web Site Project Page]]
* [[Web Site Project Page]]
* [[Tech Suggestions|Suggestion Box for the New Site or Tools]] (deprecated- will be integrated with release planning docs)
* [[Current Schema]] (most recent data dump is [http://www.comics.org/beta/GCDData.gz here])
* [[Current Schema]] (most recent data dump is [http://www.comics.org/beta/GCDData.gz here])
* [http://gcd.longbox.com/ New Schema]
* [http://gcd.longbox.com/ New Schema]
* [http://maelstrom.walton.uark.edu/gcd/ New Site Testbed] (may or may not be running or particularly functional)
* [http://maelstrom.walton.uark.edu/gcd/ New Site Testbed]
** Note:  This is a testing site, so we don't guarantee it will always work, or even be running!
 
Contact the [http://groups.google.com/group/gcd-tech gcd-tech group] for more information about any of the above.


==Knowledge Base==
==More Stuff About Comics==
 
...that doesn't quite fit in the database.


* [[Publishers|Publishers, Imprints and Related Companies]]
* [[Publishers|Publishers, Imprints and Related Companies]]
* [[Significant Appearances]]
* [[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)

Revision as of 02:11, 11 January 2009

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

Contributing to the GCD

FAQ contributors include: Bob Klein, Jonathan Ingersoll, Will Allred, Bob Heer, Jon Lovstad, Rob Sharp, Peter Croome, Tim Stroup, Jim Vandore and assorted GCD-Tech list folks.

Technical

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.