Hello. I would like to use OOo 1.9 for an academic database project. I
need to convince the principal investigator for the project of the
viability of OOo Base for the project, since he has advocated for the
use of FileMaker (which is not available on my own platform). I have
never used a database program before (although i have lots of experience
in various programming languages). I have read through the Getting
Started Guide, chapter 10 "Getting Started with Base: Introduction to
Data Sources".
I need to know the answers to a few questions to decide whether Base is
actually viable for our project. I would greatly appreciate answers to
any of these questions. I suppose it would be useful to first describe
what the project is. This is something of a dictionary in an endangered
language spoken in Ghana to be used by linguists. The database will
include about 1500 entries, each with fields such as citation form (such
as singular for a noun), additional forms, tonal pattern, English
translation, verb or noun class, etc. An English translation or remarks
field might need room for 100-200 characters.
Here are my questions:
1. The transcription for the language might need to make extensive
use of non-ASCII and non ISO-8859-1 characters and diacritics.
Will extensive use of Unicode characters pose a problem?
2. Is Base suitable for a database of this size?
3. Will it be easy to export the database file to other database
formats? Would it be feasible to input all of the data into the
database even if it was later decided that a different program
would be more appropriate for queries?
4. Is the following work flow feasible for work in Base:
a. User A works on the database file on Linux.
b. User B gets the database file from user A to work on
it in Windows.
c. User A gets the database file from user B to work on
it in Linux.
d. Etc.
Thank you for any answers or insight you may have.
Leston
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