It might be worth checking out some existing solutions to the problem.
Zotero is a pretty good tool for collecting, organizing, and sharing
citation data - open source, works through a browser plug-in,
collaboration capabilities (though the server code is a bit harder to
get one's hands on).
For database, you might also look at noSQL options. eXist
(http://exist-db.org) is an open source XML database that's pretty
extensively used for cataloguing type applications. CouchDB is also
kind of interesting, and easy to use.
Miles Fidelman
On 4/15/16 2:22 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
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
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