[AccessD] Web Project

Here is an article I came across on name transliteration.
http://www.itworld.ca/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-a8d2a7b7-7a56-43c8-87c5-2742527f8f14&Portal=E-Government
I like the bit
For example, internationally sought-after terrorist mastermind Osama Bin 
Laden has the same Soundex code (L350) as Johnny "Rotten" Lydon, former 
lead singer of British punk rock group The Sex Pistols
There is a company named Language Analysis Systems
at
http://www.las-inc.com/
Their price may be out of your league since they do FBI and homeland 
security work but they have some white papers that may be of use.
Karen Rosenstiel wrote:

>Mark, thanks for your response.
>
>I've found another way to do this. I found a program called Search Maker
>Pro, which is a web search tool. It creates the JavaScript to search a web
>site or, in this case, a single page. I am fine-tuning it, but I think it
>will serve very well. You are correct that this is a flat file; essentially
>just three different names for the same person.
>
>Certainly less flexible than a database, but I haven't yet worked out in my
>head whether to go with a Win2K server with Access and ASP, or a Red Hat
>Linux server with MySQL and PHP. This is going to be a site with a lot of
>text content and would be nice to be able to just swap it in and out of
>templates.
>
>But I have to learn this stuff first. I have been struggling with Linux.
>
>Karen Rosenstiel
>Seattle WA USA
>karenr7 at oz dot net (Spam blocker -- resolve into a real email address) 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mitsules, Mark S.
>(Newport News)
>Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:13 AM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] Web Project
>
>Karen,
>
>Just for arguments sake, how long is "very long"?  Although I'm always up
>for bells and whistles when it comes to applications, sometimes a
>de-normalized flat file table will suffice.  This approach allows a user
>with no prior experience to learn by browsing the data without having to
>know a starting name or its correct spelling.  A bonus is that text only
>pages load significantly faster.  I'm assuming that the data you describe is
>fairly static;)  Therefore, you could provide the user three pages all
>containing the same data, but each sorted alphabetically by a different
>column.
>
>
>Mark
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen Rosenstiel [mailto:karenr7 at oz.net] 
>Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 7:22 PM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: [AccessD] Web Project
>
>
>Hi gang,
>I have a web project I am working on and would like your suggestions about
>how to do a part of it.
>
>I have a very long list of the Wade-Giles, Pinyin (both Chinese
>transliterations into a European alphabet) and Romaji (ditto Japanese)
>versions of Chinese and Japanese names in parallel columns. These are the
>names of old Zen masters from the last 1,800 or so years. Different books
>transliterate the names in different ways base on the above systems. This is
>very confusing for the average person who is not a language scholar to
>follow.
>
>How would you go about setting up a little web search tool so that the user
>could input a name and get the other variations?
>
>TIA
>
>Karen Rosenstiel
>Seattle WA USA
>karenr7 at oz dot net (Spam blocker -- resolve into a real email address) 
>
>  
>

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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada