einstein@bucsb.UUCP (11/02/87)
Here at the Einstein Papers Project we've got a rather interesting problem. We have an index of all the "known" correspondence of a Albert Einstein fellow, known as Al to his friends :). We also have copies of the material for research for the series of books being produced in cooperation with Princeton University Press. Since the index contains the dates (or approximate dates) and origins of the material we'd like to create a program that would allow us to build a timeline based on this material with several different headings for personal correspondence, major papers, major life events and world happenings. This would also allow us to resolve conflicting information very easily. Does anyone have suggestions for a software package that might be suitable for this kind of work. Or if not a commercial package, any good ideas for implementing such a timeline. We would prefer the software to run on our SUNs and produce postscript printer output but we have IBM PCs and could probably come up with funds to rent time on other machines if it was worthwhile.... The database is currently a mix of rBASE V and being ported into RTI Ingres. thanks in advance, David Subject: Tracking Al Einstein - software suggestions anyone? Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.database,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.wizards Here at the Einstein Papers Project we've got a rather interesting problem. We have an index of all the "known" correspondence of a Albert Einstein fellow, known as Al to his friends :). We also have copies of the material for research for a series of books being produced in cooperation with Princeton University Press. Since the index contains the dates (or approximate dates) and origins of the material we'd like to create a program that would allow us to build a timeline based on this material with several different headings for personal correspondence, major papers, major life events and world happenings. This would also allow us to resolve conflicting information very easily. Does anyone have suggestions for a software package that might be suitable for this kind of work. Or if not a commercial package, any good ideas for implementing such a timeline. We would prefer the software to run on our SUNs and produce postscript printer output but we have IBM PCs and could probably come up with funds to rent time on other machines if it was worthwhile.... The database is currently a mix of rBASE V and being ported into RTI Ingres. thanks in advance, David -- ============================================================================== David K. Fickes Center for Einstein Studies/Einstein Papers Project UUCP: ...harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!einstein Boston University BITNET: oth932@bostonu 745 Commonwealth Avenue PHONE: (617) 353-9249 (617) 277-9741 Boston, MA 02215