Welcome and questions on Stage One

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, silmariel <silmariel at t...> 
wrote:
> 
> I'll try to clarify some things. It is not that we have to choose 
one approach or the other. We'll use excel first because it's easier, 
but any work done will be put in a mysql database as soon as it's 
made. 
 (big snip)
> I know all of you have questions. Shoot.
> 
> Carolina

Carolyn:

>From what you are saying, I gather we could make an immediate start 
using the Excel cut and paste approach that I suggested, and you can 
incorporate any work done that way into the final database ?

But are you also saying that (with cooperation from Paul Kippes) you 
could also immediately create a mysql database that we could all 
access and work on directly ? And would this database contain all the 
text of the posts, or just the title index ?

I am slightly confused, as I understood from our previous emails that 
doing that might take a little time to set up, especially writing the 
programme to access it directly from a website.

Sorry for stupid questions...also, we should probably discuss with 
the admin team where the database should live, long term, ie what 
server. I guess you won't want to host it yourself indefinitely !