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searching free form text documents



You don't say what platform you are using, but in the find function (part
of the OS) on NT you can search the contents of files (I don't know
about Windows '95, '98, or 2000). It's been a while since I was forced
from Mac to NT, but I think you could do the same thing with the later
versions of Sherlock (again, part of the OS). Before that (but while I was
still on Mac) we had an application called RetrieveIt! that did the same
thing and we loved it. In all these cases we used it to search our
word processed inventories (it could search all files on all drives or
specified types of files or specified drives and folders) for the
occurance of a word or words. I'd rather not bog you down with the details
on all of these, but if you would like details on a specific method let me
know.

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Date:         Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:49:23 -0800
From:         "Andrea R. L'Hommedieu" <alhommed@BATES.EDU>
Organization: ESM Oral History Project
Subject:      searching free form text documents

Dear List,
     Have any of you set up software programs that permit students,
scholars, etc. to search free form text databases?  If so, what software
have you used?
     To give a little background and make the question more
understandable---We're in the process of creating an oral history
collection.  We hope at the end to have several hundred transcripts in
the collection.  We want students/scholars to be able to come in, search
the full text of the interviews by, I guess, keywords, and retrieve an
answer that gives them the name of the transcript and the page number
within the transcript?  Does anyone out there have experience with
this?     Any push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Andrea R. L'Hommedieu
The Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Project
Bates College, Lewiston,  ME

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