[support] School Archiving

[prothero]

First off, you should know that I'm a pretty new Drupal user, but  
here's some advice. Get "Drupal for Dummies". It gave me a vital  
start. It will tell you how to build and image library. That is, if  
you are going to store your documents as images. If you are going to  
try to convert the images to text files and store them as text, that  
will make searching even easier. Drupal can do it. But, you've got to  
expect a learning curve.
Good luck,
Bill

William A. Prothero
http://earthednet.org/



On Nov 25, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Ayath ULLAH wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking through my school's archives and have found  
> records dating back to well over a hundred years.
> It seems that nothing is in order and there is a lot to sort out.
> I would like to publish the documents onto a website and make it  
> accessible to he public.
> I'd like to know if you know of Drupal applications which can be  
> used to catalogue the data and make it searchable on a website. If  
> there aren't any can you please suggest how I may be able toc reate  
> my own.
> As I'm quite new to this concept let me know what should actually be  
> in the database/catalogue (obviously things sucha s  
> title,description and date have to be in there)
> I have alot of scanning to do- so I can publish everything.
> I was thinking of maybe doing it with an OPAC or Documnet Mangement  
> System on Drupal - but I can't find any that will do the job. I'd  
> like people to view the documnets on the webpage or on a lightbox  
> but I don't want anyne to downlaod the files.
>
> Please let me know if you have any ideas, suggestions, comments.
>
> Many Thanks,
> ayathullah
>
>
>
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