There are countless ways to approach the problem, but I suggest beginning with tools that are within the area of expertise of your staff. Mapping disparate structured formats into a single Solr instance for fast search and retrieval is one possibility.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Matt Sherman <matt.r.sher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking to pick the group brain as to what might be the most useful > database software for a digital project I am collaborating on. We are > working on converting an annotated bibliography to a searchable database. > While I have the data in a few structured formats, we need to figure out > now what to actually put it in so that it can be queried. My default line > of thinking is to try a MySQL since it is free and used ubiquitously > online, but I wanted to see if there were any other database or software > systems that we should also consider before investing a lot of time in one > approach. Any advice and suggestions would be appreciated. > > Matt Sherman >
