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Data Collation.
Alekudemus


Joined: 15 Feb 2006
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How do people on this forum store their data? I now have several books with information that I know is spurious. I would like to have a database with everything in one place. From primary sources all the way down to transcription errors. I guess Microsoft Excel is the obvious choice but does anyone have a better idea?

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Jon
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Keith Smith


Joined: 30 Aug 2005
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This is a most difficult problem which I have only partly resolved. I have a very substantial collection of contemporary AZW documents and they are all held in MS Word format. I have then used an Australian piece of software called ISYS to catalogue every word in every document. This allows me to query the database for any name or word and instantly identify the document(s) in which it is to be found. ISYS is distributed by a company called Odyssey Development and I think they they have an office somewhere in the UK.

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Dawn


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MS Access can do that as well and comes with some microsoft office packages but it is a complicated program to learn and somehow I've never been able to master it.

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Alekudemus


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Thank you both for your replies. I might try Microsoft Access first mainly because I already have the programme. Basically I'm just trying to find a way to stop incorrect information finding it's way into my database. After reading Julian Whybra's book England's Sons and seeing his explanations as to errors in other works I see just how easily this has happened over the years. Thank goodness there are people like Julian sorting it all out !

Jon
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