> if you know the annual periodical "Les Carnets" (N° 1 and N° 2), you > also know that I have tried to do some bibliographical research on > secondary sources devoted to the work of Ernst Jünger. some of which has found its way into the list of sources on the website. Everyone will no doubt be pleased to know that I am starting to learn SQL and PHP3 to produce responses to specific queries about works on and by EJ. But it will take a while. And it might even have pictures in it and allow people to add their own comments... I will also be talking to our librarians here about how to develop a systematic categorisation - the one I have been using on my Papyrus Dos database is of little use to myself and even less to anyone else. The Humanities Computing Unit in Oxford has expressed an interest in hosting it, so I won't have to go hunting ISPs which offer database connectivity for a hefty fee. I expect that I will ask users to register themselves and "sign" a declaration with respect to intellectual property rights, etc. And that we'll have the opportunity for selected people to have write permissions to add new items authoritatively through web based forms. I'm also thinking of putting all the link URLs into the database and more besides. If it all works, I'll make the SQL and code available to any similar projects. But it'll be a while yet as I learn how to recompile apache modules and lots of fun tech stuff. And now I've got Oracle and COld Fusion to play with at work (yes, work)... > Actually not of interest are articles in daily newspapers and weekly > magazines. The bibliography of Jünger-"essentials" to be published aims > to include only academic contributions and critical essays on life and > work of Ernst Jünger which are more than 5 pages. No problem here. But seriously, a database can collect anything and still produce highly usable results using selective searchs. But a 1000 page book starts getting unwieldy and can't be updated frequently or interactively. Enough musings from web guru land ;-) Best wishes from a hot and sunny Oxford, John ============================================================================== John King St. John's College GB - Oxford OX1 3JP ==============================================================================
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