Subject: Categorizations...

From: Bob Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 14:03:59 EST

w.r.t. Categories

I may be misunderstanding some of the discussion about
Telescopes and Departments, but ...

The Category field can have 1 or more values.
The first value is the 'primary' one.

How people divide them up into files is open.

At STScI, I have one file for each category and if
a resource has that category, either primary or
secondard, it appears in that file.

Other people may want to have each resource appear
in only one file.

But that is a matter of taste.

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w.r.t. how to do merge the databases

1. Use the Astrowebedit facility to make a local
copy of the database.

2. Use the format conversion tools or editor or
whatever to put the new records in Edit format.

3. Append the new records at the end of the 
local copy.

4. Open local on the local copy and see if it 
loads.

			Bob