Dear Neil,
The point of this was really to help the application of new standards, such as those covered by the ALGAO lists, as Exegesis are unable to build those in for existing users (as explained in my email to the list last week). I would in any case have thought it ought to be easier (and safer) to do this kind of thing through HBSMR rather than the underlying database. In any case what Crispin was proposing to me wouldn't do away with the user role in this - perhaps it would be helpful to have some technical input from Crispin here?

Paul

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From:   Neil Campling [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   04 February 2002 09:30
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Subject:        Re: ALGAO Terminology Lists -reaction wanted!

Dear Paul,

Sorry, but we're not entirely convinced of the need for an HBSMR application for global editing of terms.  Will terms change so significantly in the future that such wholesale re-assignment of terms will be needed ? We think that one could just go into the Access database and do big edits there rather than go through HBSMR.  And we won't always have our data stored on Access:- we could move to Oracle and have an Access shell with which to use HBSMR.  I would be a bit leary of global edits from HBSMR, especially where our terms may be linked to or in user-defined fields, or cover a more varied range of things than in the Standards.

Cheers,
Neil

>>> [log in to unmask] 04/02/2002 15:11:59 >>>
Thanks Neil but that wasn't what I wanted a reaction on - it was really
about whether we can develop an application to help SMRs implement the
standards,
Paul




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