Developing a Niche Online-Content Indexing System?

tebee writes "One of my hobbies has benefited for 20years or so by the existence of an online index to all magazinearticles on the subject since the 1930s. It lets you list thearticles in any particular magazine or search for an article bykeyword, title or author, refining the search if necessary bymagazine and/or date. Unfortunately the firm which hosts theindex have recently pulled it from their website, citing securityworries and incompatibilities with the rest of their e-commercewebsite: the heart of the system is a 20-year-old DOS program! Theyhave no plans to replace it as the original data is in an unknownformat. So we are taking about putting togethera team to build a open source replacement for this ndash; probably usingPHP and MySQL. The governing body for the hobby has agreed to hostthis and we are in negotiations to try and get the original data. Wehope that by volunteers crowd sourcing the conversion we will beable to do what was commercially impossible." Tebee is looking for ideas about the best way to go about this, and for leads to existing approaches; read on for more.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory %2F10%2F07%2F17%2F1928234%2FDeveloping-a-Niche-Online-Content-Indexing-System" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Developing+a+Niche+Online-Content+Indexing+System%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly% 2FbzIqxU" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/07/17/1928234/Developing-a-Niche-Online-Content-Indexing-System?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/akSAAiqgaXQDD5L1-XbQCnXm3P8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/akSAAiqgaXQDD5L1-XbQCnXm3P8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/akSAAiqgaXQDD5L1-XbQCnXm3P8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/akSAAiqgaXQDD5L1-XbQCnXm3P8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/BKoeaq56iSk" height="1" width="1"/

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