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Literary Data Base...
by Thanh Christopher Nguyen
Thu 03 Jun 2004 20:43:18
I've been building, for years, journals and journals of quotes and passages from my reading. I was thinking, at first, about building a large search engine that would bring up quotes on various topics. I'm sure someone has already done this, and that you can get book after book on quotes with a Topic based Index. But I want my very own. I think I can easily do it with a spreadsheet program. How, Anders, do you have your little keyword thingy set up? If I were a programmer, I'd steal the code, but I'm not a programmer, and I'm well out of the stealings&loans business.
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anders pearson - Thu 03 Jun 2004 21:38:25
the keywords are just an extra table in the database. not really a big deal in themselves. but not really the kind of thing that you can just lift out and use elsewhere. for what you want to do, you probably want something like "filemaker":http://www.filemaker.com/. i'd like to recommend something open source, but i don't really know of any decent open source graphical databases. anytime i do anything with a database, i access it through a programming language. maybe someone else can suggest something.emile - Fri 04 Jun 2004 01:39:03
well mysql has a pretty simple web gui (phpMySQL) hmmm. if you have micro$oft office, access is wicked drag n drop. umm, if you can really ( in excrutiatingly painful detail) tell me everything you want it to do, i could probably fabricate something in an hour or two.TC - Fri 04 Jun 2004 08:18:05
I want to type all my quote entries, and maybe my notes on good writing (ie. transitions, analogies, etc...) into a database, and then be able to search topics, where-upon the returned material will be those entries. It would, I suppose, be just like the keyword search Traxil has/had. I liked when you could type in a word, and it would hit you with all the results. I'm more interested in defining the search by topic though, so it'd be like searching Thraxil's topic line in order to find the text entered in the post. Is this making any sense? I think my propensity to overstate the obvious is screwing it all up. I want a taco.