[Nhcoll-l] Online Data Bases

[Douglas Yanega]

On 10/29/20 1:13 PM, Patti Finkle wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> 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?
>
> 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!)

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.

Peace,

-- 
Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
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