Filemaker Pro

[Kevin C. Marsh]

Hi!  Hans Lofgren wrote:

>Does anyone have experience of using FilemakerPro on a Mackintosh for a
>bibliographic database made accessible through the Internet?
>
>Technically, it is possible to create a database website through FileMaker
>combined with Tango for Filemaker - and there are a number of
>non-bibliographic FileMaker databases on the internet.

Is Tango Z39.50 compliant?  If not, you may want to look at managing your
data in Filemaker and then exporting it to a freeware Z39.50 server like
Zebra from http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra.html

>I'd also be interested in information about any other small-scale
>specialised bibliographic/full text databases on the internet (as distinct
>from library cataglogues).

We have used freeWAIS-sf successfully for this in the past at
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/fpc and http://www.bchm.org, but we are looking
into upgrading them and switching to Zebra for our current clients.


Kevin C. Marsh, Executive Director
Information Access Institute
KMarsh at Information.org     http://Information.org