Databases needed for STEP

Troy, thanks for offering to look at extending the database capabilities of Sword.
Here is an idea of the kinds of databases we are looking at:

1) Small databases like:
* events and people with dates and links to entries in dictionaries and to Bible refs
* geographical names with co-ordinates and links to entries in dictionaries and to Bible refs
* manuscripts with brief descriptions and weblinks to images
2) Larger databases like:
* lexicon entries with abbreviated entries and links to scans of full entries
* subject indexes for secondary published literature with links to offline copyright-free or copyright-permissioned texts, and links to online fair-use texts.
3) Large datasets like:
* Full texts such as Charles Psudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus etc.
* Perseus public domain Greek texts and English texts with links to each other, and full-text indexing
  (this is some way down the road, and hopefully we will be able to adapt something which Perseus already produces)

I think all of this can be done with fairly simple flat-file or non-relational databases, though the database would have to have good indexing capability.

We don't yet have any database available, but I we could try a small one with some dummy data, eg:

"Aaron", "1200", "all about Aaron"
"Abel", "4000", "Son of Adam"
"Abi", "900", "(see Abijah)"
"Abiel", "600", "all about Abiel"
"Abiah", "800", "all about Abiah"
"Abida", "850", "all about Abida"
"Abiezer", "950", "all about Abiezer"
"Abigail", "975", "all about Abigail, married to David"
"Abihail", "670", "all about Amihail"
"Abihu", "730", "all about Abihu"
"Abijah", "770", "all about Abijah"
"David", "770", "all about David, married to Abigail"



David IB