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Title: looking for finds data base Post by: Landyman on November 20, 2009, 12:25:06 AM Does any one here use a database on their pc to keep a record of their finds? If so, can you recommend a database to use? Title: Re: looking for finds data base Post by: Debbie on November 20, 2009, 02:24:58 PM Is this the kind of thing you have in mind imnotin ? Here is a screen print of a finds database that I am working on - the drop down arrows give a menu of pre-defined values relating to each field next to it - eg Period Age. Once the entries are put into the database, then you can search by any of the fields. Sorry about the quality of the image - it's just a screen print saved as a .jpg file.
This will take a bit of fine tuning, and I am not expert enough to make a pretty 'front end' to the database - perhaps another DW member can help me. Deb Title: Re: looking for finds data base Post by: zorro on November 20, 2009, 02:49:10 PM imnotin i just save all pics to relevant folders. eg. coins>roman, hammered, milled. artifacts> roman , medieval. beach finds etc etc etc then save them all in my detector finds folder in my Documents.
there is some software out there from Ginkoware called i-detect which i believe is free to download thro a cracked torrent. dont know if you caught the recent topic re: databases , but admin may be looking into the possibilty of having our own on this site. anyway hope some of the above helps in some way Title: Re: looking for finds data base Post by: Landyman on November 20, 2009, 08:33:11 PM Thanks for the info but someone on another site has recomended Happydigger. I have downloaded it from here http://mirrors.aixtools.net/sv/happydigger/happydigger3.1-setup.exe (http://mirrors.aixtools.net/sv/happydigger/happydigger3.1-setup.exe) Seems ok and its freeeeeeeee!
Debbie, If you havnt seen it before it might be worth you downloading it to give you some ideas for your data base??? Just a thought. |