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Re: Database design query



We have done something similar in Access and use it to output a static
list in HTML. See
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/uibldngs.html> for the end
product. I'd be happy to answer questions about it.

   ---Terry

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>


On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, David McCartney wrote:

> Greetings, list,
>
> We are designing an Access database for our Web site
> that will cover the history of selected buildings on
> our campus, intended for casual researchers who are
> interested in basic information: date of construction,
> architect, name history, etc.
>
> To assemble this we will be pulling information from
> several sources: our buildings vertical file,
> photographs, and campus maps (for location info only,
> though we might include scanned map images later). We
> also plan to include additional-source citations for
> those interested in deeper research.
>
> Have any C&U archivists had experience with this kind
> of project before? What data elements did you include?
> Did you create a fully-local db from scratch, or did
> you find a particular established format (MARC, Dublin
> Core, etc) helpful? Perhaps a blend?
>
> You may reply either to the list, or directly to me at
> my email below (not my Yahoo account, please). If you
> have a project like this already up on the Web to
> show, please pass along the URL for it too, if you
> wish.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> David McCartney
> University of Iowa
>
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> The University of Iowa Libraries
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>
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