searchable database

[TFfan]

I have a friend who has a list of over a thousand bibliographic entries and would like to post them on a website.

My question is how does one organize this information into a searchable database. What is the best way to do this?

 

[Dorff]

First place to start is to consider what you have to organize in the first place. Find common traits between the records to establish what you could use. Then you want to think about what people would be searching for and try to keep that information from being clumped together with less useful information.

If you actually need to know how to physically do it, start with an excel sheet, look into the DTS program that is included with SQL Server. I assume the list is typed up, and with DTS you could just import it into a database and you're done. Ryan
rmindorff@hotmail.com

 

[Dorff]

First place to start is to consider what you actually have to organize. Find common traits between the records to establish what you could use. Then you want to think about what people would be searching for and try to keep that information from being clumped together with less useful information.

If you actually need to know how to physically do it, start with an excel sheet, look into the DTS program that is included with SQL Server. I assume the list is typed up, and with DTS you could just import it into a database and you're done. Ryan
rmindorff@hotmail.com

 

[Dorff]

My mistake....sorry. Ryan
rmindorff@hotmail.com