Open Sourced Cataloguing Packages?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday May 14, 2002 @04:45AM from the keeping-track-of-it-all dept.

mcse_knowthyenemy asks: "I am cataloguing a HUGE private collection for a magician (No, we cannot waive a wand...) with an item count of at least 100k. The end result will be a searchable website. There are several Windoze packages that fit the bill (item data ad nauseum, image inclusion, reports, website). But these invariably requires numerous Microsoft products plus IIS. So, any input on a solution that is based on Apache, instead?" There are plenty of cataloguing and e-Commerce bases out ther that would work for this, one only has to perform a quick Freshmeat search to find them, however this being a museum, maybe there are better options? Would you use the already available software for this sitution or would you write something custom, instead?

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Nice try Cliff... by Eagle7 · 2002-05-14 05:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I like how you tried to fend off the "Just f*cking use Google!!!" responses. But again, this sounds like someone with a job taking a shortcut by asking the /. community rather than just spending time searching and experimenting.

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