re: Checklist conversion to Database program
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: re: Checklist conversion to Database program
- From: T* T* L* <t*@Rt66.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:34:02 -0700
Chad Schroter writes
: If you scan the Checklists into files (ie .csv). The files can be
:imported into many data base programs ie. Microsoft Access. If the scanned
:file
:data does not conform to the import data requirements (ie. we need to add
:commas
:to delineate some fields) but does adhere to some format in terms of
:number of
:fields etc., It should be possible to write a program that would "parse" the
:checklist entries into separate fields with commas etc. prior to importing it
:into the database.
:
Several of us conducted an extended discussion on this subject off-list
a few months back. The problem is that the printed checklists themselves
are not consistent in the "fields" they use for registration data, and there
are many nuances in properly interpreting registration entries, especially
from the older checklists. If you have access to the 1939 checklist, open
it up and compare a few entries with those in the current set of R & Is.
I'm convinced that a human being with iris knowledge would have to review
each entry in order to correctly feed it into a database.
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Tom Tadfor Little telp@Rt66.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
Telperion Productions http://www.rt66.com/telp/
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