Re: jewish music databases

[Yakov (Koby) <kchodosh...>]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:24:55 -0500, you wrote:

>In my experience, each catalogue entry should have two separate title 
>fields. One, with the title of the item in Hebrew characters (thus, 
>with a DB that supports that -- Yuval Italia's catalogue is based on 
>a very accessible Claris FileMaker Pro; we work with Mac, and Mac OS 
>9 has built-in Hebrew), and the other, with the actual title 
>appearing on the publication, whatever its transliteration may be, or 
>else (when the title is not transliterated) a user-defined 
>transliteration.

Even better, set up so that when someone searches with English letters, they're 
piped through a reverse transliterator into a variety of possible 
Hebrew/Yiddish spellings. Then, execute the real search on those terms.

Yakov.
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