nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Dr. Nick H.G. Holford) (06/19/91)
The School of Medicine at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) is
revising its teaching curriculum.
We have a network (Vines now, Novell real soon now...) with a
PClone in each Dept (Macs will be added with Novell).
We would like to set up a network database with fields such as:
Lecture Type e.g. didactic lecture, tutorial, laboratory
Lecture Title
Content Keywords e.g. kidney, blood flow, serum creatinine
Organ System e.g. cardiovascular, CNS
Disease Category e.g. lung cancer, asthma
Therapeutic Agents e.g. aspirin, digoxin
Responsible Dept
Responsible Person
Lecture Duration
Term/Semester e.g. 1, 2 or 3
We would like to use the database to create lecture schedules, detect
overlap of teaching topics by different departments, identify missing
areas of interest, etc.
It seems likely that this particular wheel (or close relative) has already
been invented. Would anyone who knows of a system which might be adapted
to our needs please contact me. There are some (limited) financial
resources available to purchase/license an existing system in addition
to a database manager such as Paradox, Oracle, etc.
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Nick Holford, Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
INTERNET: n.holford@aukuni.ac.nz
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Nick Holford, Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
INTERNET: n.holford@aukuni.ac.nztau-ceti (06/20/91)
nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Dr. Nick H.G. Holford) writes: > > We would like to set up a network database with fields such as: > Lecture Type e.g. didactic lecture, tutorial, laboratory > Lecture Title > Content Keywords e.g. kidney, blood flow, serum creatinine > Organ System e.g. cardiovascular, CNS > Disease Category e.g. lung cancer, asthma > Therapeutic Agents e.g. aspirin, digoxin > Responsible Dept > Responsible Person > Lecture Duration > Term/Semester e.g. 1, 2 or 3 > I saw an implementation *very* similar to this at a National Pharmacological seminar held in San Francisco in 1990. I believe that the original source was written in either dBase IV or else Informix 4GL. For the life of me I cannot find a reference anywhere in my database (damn databases!)that would give me a clue as to the author, but at the time I remember that it was a simple unit to write. Let me know what experience you or someone in your department has with either of these database managers. Perhaps I can "walk you through it." It really isn't that difficult. Let me know if I can help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- dave@kharma (Dave Laird) | (___) | The Computer Concern, Springdale SYSOP: Used Kharma Lot BBS | (O O) | Washington 509-233-8474 *HST* _____________________________| (._.) |___________________________________ ++ isc-br!tau-ceti!dogear!kharma!dave ++