I am working with an archive institution which has a large repository (papers, manuscripts, photos, objects). They curretlymanage their archive collection on an ACCESS 3.0 database and need to migrate to a better platform. Much of their database is about managing their workflow (tracking accessions, inventory, reporting on statistics on reference usage, etc.). Since it will mostly be for internal usage (although their website will use it as a backend for collection searching), what programing language and/or open source technologies are most flexible and popular right now in the library/archive world? They have customized their current database too much to accommodate to a "off-the-shelf" type package.
I am new to the Code4lib site and your advice is much appreciated. Linda Colet
