Hi Marc, On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:31, Marc Baaden wrote: > Hi, > > some time ago I was asking similar questions (and haven't really found the > perfect answer. So please allow me to re-post my thoughts to widen the > discussion a little bit. Some bits are a little specific to computational > chemistry. It's about Data and Knowledge Management Tools for Computational > Chemists. > > I am looking for software, tools or general approaches to get hold of the > wealth of information that accumulates (mostly) electronically. In particular > emails, text/PDF/XML or similar documents, bookmarks to websites and > bibliographic references. > > The main request would be to be able to "store" information as is without > having to enter it individually into a curated database. Filtering, indexing > or cataloging through a script would be ok, though. A powerful search should > be > possible.
[snip] as you want to mix different kinds of information and only want to access the info, a general index generator comes to my mind. I.e. 'swish++' can index lots of file formats using filters. Then you can ask to list you eveything which caintains for example 'bronstein', my preferred math handbook. I prefer a more type specific approch where a program knows about the structure of the info, i.e. email, book reference, gps data, ... and parses this info and finally stores it in a database. Then you can either do a global query overall databases and tables or in a specific one. And use sql scripts combined with perl, the "swiss army nife of the programmer" someone said sometime ago in a mail list. Kind Regards, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
