Re: About free-form database
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:29 +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist. I don't agree that this constitutes abuse of debian-science. This list is for discussion of tools for scientific development, and a couple of long threads have dealt with typesetting tools suited for science. If typesetting is on-topic, why not data management? That said, I'll echo the recommendation to use apt-cache search. The OP should consider one of the many systems (beagle, tracker, namazu, ...) to maintain an index of a filestore. Many will attempt to extract terms from document formats (.tex. pdf, .doc, html, etc). Also, agrep is designed to improve on grep for searching text stores. -- George N. White III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About free-form database
As a natural product chemist, memorizing data and chemical structures is routine in my job. Aside the brain, I was using a free-form database (which also allowed definition of flelds on-the-fly) driven through the emulation program 'wine'. In writing books it was of tremendous help. Since I updated to lenny, wine is no more (or I am not) capable of running the engine. 15 days of frequents attempts (purging everything and reinstalling) could not solve the issue. I never moved to structured database as I preferred to use the database as a paper notebook, addressing the linking to the brain. I.e, it was nothing different from the traditional way we are used to study and follow the literature. Now I am forced to change, and I was also tired to follow the vagaries of wine. I thought to SQLite as the lightest alternative. I found it heavily structured. Not the way I am used in learning and planning. Therefore, I thought why not turning to 'grep' and and perhaps also 'wc' and other commands for processing text. I have a text file exported some time ago, the largest one of my databases (about marine natural products) and I am (for the time being) extremely impressed by the capability of grep. I can even retrieve - without fields - which marine organisms have been collected (for natural product extraction) between, say, 15 and 25m depth (a data retrieval that was only allowed by the wine-driven database through fields. Well, enthusiasm if often momentary. Before embarking with grep and allies, I wonder whether there is established experience with what I have described. That would help indeed. Thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About free-form database
This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About free-form database
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:18 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Well, enthusiasm if often momentary. Before embarking with grep and allies, I wonder whether there is established experience with what I have described. That would help indeed. I use a small wiki for my journalling. I started out with a tiddlywiki and have since moved up to a moinmoin wiki. Both are light weight wikis (neither requires a webserver or database backend). Moinmoin has better support for embedded content (images, math, etc.). Both can be searched, but only using typical text searches---perhaps not enough horsepower for your application. Cheers. --Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About free-form database
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:29 +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist. I don't agree that this constitutes abuse of debian-science. This list is for discussion of tools for scientific development, and a couple of long threads have dealt with typesetting tools suited for science. If typesetting is on-topic, why not data management? That said, I'll echo the recommendation to use apt-cache search. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
