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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!sethg
- From: sethg@dcatlas.dot.gov (Seth Grimes)
- Subject: Re: Biographical/Historical database?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.021108.22356@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Aug26.192710.15691@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:11:08 GMT
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- dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle) writes:
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- > I'm not sure how to describe this but...I've got a user who whould like a
- >database system to track biographical and historical type information. The
- >data she has collected does not fit well into the typical database structure;
- >some of it does but one part in particular is pretty much free form text.
- >This text is biographical or historcal in nature. I'm familiar with dBase and
- >in those terms a memo field would be the closest thing. The probem with
- >memo fields is manipulating and printing them out...they are also not big
- >enough. Any body got any ideas as to a database which might handle this kind
- >of information best? Thanks!
-
- You should look into a text-retrieval system. Topic from Verity, Inc., is an
- example. We run it at my site although I don't use it myself.
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- Seth Grimes, dcatlas!sethg@uunet.uu.net
- Automated Sciences Group (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
-