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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 >