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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/29/20 1:13 PM, Patti Finkle
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I work for a small paleontology museum and we are looking to
write a grant to get a collections assistant who will help us
with our backlog, but also help us load information into a
format so that our collections will be accessible online to
researchers. What kinds of online, open access databases do
you recommend we look at or stay away from?</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We currently use
FileMaker Pro, but are not looking to put all of our info
online, just the basics, so going with FileMaker seems like
overkill. (Also, would you have to have FileMaker on your end
to even use it? So many questions!)</div>
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<p>We also use FileMaker Pro (some 600K records), and what we do to
share data online is to run a script every day that exports a file
to Dropbox, and that file is picked up by a data aggregator
(DiscoverLife) and our records appear online. If your data fields
are mostly Darwin-Core-Compliant, then it's easy for users to work
with the shared data. It's a fairly simple procedure, and would
not require you to obtain or learn any new software; just one very
short script, and one click a day.</p>
<p>Peace,<br>
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Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82</pre>
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