I work on a project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The bulk of our work entails collecting historical census data for New York and Chicago and entering it into a database. Until now, we've given our workers floppy disks with simple Excel or comma-delimited databases on them for entering the data. I think it would be much more productive, and easier to manage, if we had them enter this data over the internet. However, I don't know what type of programs are available for this kind of task. I suspect MySQL may be the way to go, but I'm not sure. Could anyone give suggestions as to where I should start? I would love to be able to keep logs of people's time spent in the database application, and to keep track of what records they entered, but I would also be happy with a simple application that only has data entry capabilities. Given the skill level of our workers, a web browser interface would be most desirable.
Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452