making databases Web-accessible

[William Oldfield]

I would like to suggest a look at the new LiveLink version of the
Opentext software.  It was rated A1 by ComputerWorld (Oct 7, 1996) and
it is powerful and versatile when it comes to delivering databases,
wordprocessing documents, tagged ascii files or SGML formatted
electronic text through the Web.  It was originally designed for the 20
vol. Oxford English Dictionary at the University of Waterloo.

Opentext - http://www.opentext.com/

Stephen G Washko wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions about how to make databases
> Web-accessible?
> 
> In the Chester County Library System we have 17 member libraries
> in a federated system.  We want to create a troubleshooting
> database so that staff at all of the libraries can submit their
> requests for help with hardware and software problems to a
> database on an NT server at the main library using a Web form.
> We would like the network administrator to automatically get an
> e-mail saying that another problem request has been submitted to
> the database.  We would also like to be able to run reports from
> the database listing high-priority items, all problems at a
> certain library, etc.
> 
> We are at the beginning stages of investigating how to do this.
> Does anyone have experience with such products as Cold Fusion,
> DBWeb, the Internet Database Connector feature of Microsoft's
> Internet Information Server, or any other product we might not be
> aware of?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve Washko
> Information Systems Administrator
> Chester County Library and District Center
> s_washko at mail.co.chester.pa.us

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William Oldfield	(Networked Information, Research Associate)
University of Waterloo Library 	    Waterloo, Ont. Canada
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