What technologies are you comfortable with for CRUD? That may help inform your choice of data source. Do you want full text searching? Will this project live on a web page when completed?
As well- are there existing databases program available for you to add yours to? How many records are contained in the data? Cheers! On 4/15/16, 2:32 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Matt Sherman" <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU on behalf of matt.r.sher...@gmail.com> wrote: >Well, this is a side project with just 2 of us working on it, and I have >the tech skills so it is more of what I need to learn to make it work. > >On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Ethan Gruber <ewg4x...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There are countless ways to approach the problem, but I suggest beginning >> with tools that are within the area of expertise of your staff. Mapping >> disparate structured formats into a single Solr instance for fast search >> and retrieval is one possibility. >> >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Matt Sherman <matt.r.sher...@gmail.com> >> 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 >> > >>