2 May
2006
2 May
'06
11:59 a.m.
There was a similar "do it yourself" set of
advice when it came to
cataloging my books, but instead <http://www.librarything.com> was the
perfect answer to my problems. I don't want to write my own PHP/MySQL
collection/database management system. (Hell, if I didn't want to be
a database monkey in 1978 when learning RSTS/E on the PDP-11/70, I
sure as hell don't want to be a database monkey in 2006!)
If noone is using a content management system that they like and would
care to recommend, that's fine, but I thought I'd ask first.
It sounds like the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) record format
might be useful to you. There are some tools which deal with it,
though they may be more than you want to tackle. Dspace, for example,
is a fairly complex system, but can probably do what you want.
Then you're not writing (much) code, and you're all standardized.
De