Re: Re: HYB: finding pedigrees

In a message dated 10/9/02 2:02:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jijones@usjoneses.com writes:


> The CD issue raises a lot of questions. I would like to hear how people
> would use a CD given the following:
> 
> That a CD would contain just the data in text form of the registrations. 
> It would be broken into several fields (somewhere from 3 to 7)
> It would not have a search engine associated with it.
> The data could be imported to any program capable of resolving "tabbed 
> text"
> 
> What would you use the information for?
> How would you access the information?
> How would you search the information?
> How would you conduct boolean searches?
> 
> If the CD did have a search program associated with it:
> What platforms would it run on? (PC, Mac, Unix)
> What operating systems and what versions?
> 

Adobe .pdf files are generally the standard cross platform  media. According 
to the tv network news more than 45% of Americans have access to computers. 
Adobe Acrobat Reader is free and is required by many programs already. This 
would seem tp be the most common denominator for all users. This way you put 
the Cd in, it starts AAR and you read it just like e-mail

Tab deleted text might be a little difficult to read. Hopefully a global 
replacement of ( TAB ) with ( COMMA ) in the current database would ease the 
pain of conversion and yield something that reads like the printed texts. 

A downloadable database would be wonderful except it too could be 
redistributed  freely. Likewise the PDF file would have to password protected 
to prevent the export of the data.

Reality Check time. Would the number of people who buy both the Cd and 
printed text versions exceed the number of people who try to find a "free" 
copy of the database instead of buying either?  Starting with me  Yes, So 
disregard the previous paragraph.
 
Considering the number of AIS members in contrast to the number of members of 
this list and then considering the number of members of this list who want a 
database file, a database CD doesn't seem necessary.  A downloadable file in 
a common  delimited file format would be great and it should be free to all 
those folks who have worked so hard Making the database.

Any pictures should probably be limited to those on the AIS official website. 
A couple of references to Iris - Photos and the Archives would be nice with 
the proper disclaimer. Anybody Know the latin for " Let the viewer beware "?

Michael and Cathleen
Stockton Ca. Cool fall weather in the low 80's


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