[WEB4LIB] Newspaper Indexing

[Samuel Mcdonald]

I guess unless you want to use Oracle 8i, the next best choice would be
MySQL with PHP3.  (MSAccess with Coldfusion won't scale as large as you
would need it).
-Sam

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Robin Dombrow wrote:

> I know this was discussed last fall (I checked the archives), but does
> anyone have anything further to add about indexing newspapers or other local
> history databases and loading to web?
>   We are starting a project and our city computer people said yesterday that
> we could not use Access to index material (it wasn't good enough) and they
> said there is nothing they know of which will do the job we want to load a
> searchable index to the web.
>   We have an obit index covering about 20 years of the local papers and want
> to do a retrospective index as well. Also have a local history file which
> has notations from census, cemetery, wills, deeds, voter's registrations,
> etc.  What we want is to make a database of these files, load them on our
> webpage and take the old drawers out of the area.
>    I have forwarded your comments from last fall to my asst. director, but
> wanted to know if there are any additions, corrections, cautions. I know it
> can be done. Some of you are doing it.
> 
> I appreciate the help,
> 
> Robin
> 
> Robin D. Dombrowsky
> Adult Services Librarian
> Leesburg Public Library
> 204 N. 5th St.
> Leesburg, FL 34748
> (352)728-9790
> rdombrow at ci.leesburg.fl.us 
> 

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