web-based data entry
I work on a project funded by a grant from the National Science
Foundation. The bulk of our work entails collecting historical census
data for New York and Chicago and entering it into a database. Until
now, we've given our workers floppy disks with simple Excel or
comma-delimited databases on them for entering the data. I think it
would be much more productive, and easier to manage, if we had them
enter this data over the internet. However, I don't know what type of
programs are available for this kind of task. I suspect MySQL may be
the way to go, but I'm not sure. Could anyone give suggestions as to
where I should start? I would love to be able to keep logs of people's
time spent in the database application, and to keep track of what
records they entered, but I would also be happy with a simple
application that only has data entry capabilities. Given the skill
level of our workers, a web browser interface would be most desirable.
Thanks.
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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
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