## Entities - Multimedia Object

Instances of type Multimedia Object can store binary data like images, scanned documents or recordings. A media object can be instantiated once and referenced by several other entities that have some kind of connection to the contained data.

Important Note: This type of entity, storing the binary uuencoded information within the Gedcom structure, creates exorbitantly large .ged files and is therefore modelled in GenJ for compatibility with the Gedcom standard only. To associate images and other files with your Gedcom information it is recommended to use the Multimedia Property (which can be added to an existing property through its context-menu). This property contains a sub-property FILE that stores a filename instead of the file contents.

Entity | Multimedia Object
Image |
Gedcom Tag | OBJE
Gedcom Info | Pertaining to a grouping of attributes used in describing something. Usually referring to the data required to represent a multimedia object, such an audio recording, a photograph of a person or an image of a document
Sub Tags | TITL, FORM, BLOB, NOTE
References to | NOTE Note