It is OCRed text that we've forced in the a delimited text file format.  So
there are a lot of ways we can spin it.  I am just not as familiar with the
storage/query systems we could put it in.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Gregory Murray <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Matt,
>
> If the annotated bibliography is already in XML form, or if the data it is
> suited to a hierarchical structure, you may want to consider using a
> native XML database (the most common open-source ones are eXist and BaseX)
> and querying it with XQuery.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On 4/15/16, 2:18 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Matt Sherman"
> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> 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
>