Fwd: OT: Resources for Data Base Design

2010-05-11 Thread Devin Asay
AM MDT > To: Devin Asay > Subject: Re: OT: Resources for Data Base Design > > Hi Devin, > > At least in the world of academia, what he's looking for just isn't done. > Whether for philosophical reasons, common practice reasons, or whatever, > there is very l

Re: OT: Resources for Data Base Design

2010-05-10 Thread Robert Mann
simple. I've got a model working fine as the database of highly structured books in an editorial process application, that deals with extracting any part of a book and outputing in different formats. Feel free to drop an email. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.na

Re: OT: Resources for Data Base Design

2010-05-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Seems like you need a column for each of your subsets, series, book, sections, chapters. Then index on all 5 columns, or have all 5 values concatenated into a single column and index on that. Not sure what kind of index you could use for the text though. I've always wondered about that. How do y

Re: OT: Resources for Data Base Design

2010-05-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Sivakatirswami, FYI, I don't really understand what it is you are trying to accomplish, but I have had some excellent results using WordPress. If you're into WP at all, there's a must have book by Chris Coyier, "Digging into WordPress." The great thing with WP is besides being open source, ther

OT: Resources for Data Base Design

2010-05-08 Thread Sivakatirswami
I'm working on a content management database based on the Dublin Core and the Media Annotation Initiative. Much of the whole mode of discourse and terms translate well into a database scheme but when the discourse starts to talking about fine tuning and switches to an RDF framework it is diffic