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Experience with large Procite files
Author: George Swan    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:59:08 -0600
Subject: Experience with large Procite files? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Folks: I've been asked to contribute experience/advice on how to present a large departmental library electronically which up until now has been on hard-copy cards. One option I suggested was the Procite/Ref Web poster route, since grad students/faculty might also want to search from home or office. Does anyone have any experience with 4,000 to 6,000 item procite files? slow are they in: a) Procite environment (with Pentium 400) b) Ref Webposter (dedicated line--not modem-- and a solid server software gs

Re: Experience with large Procite files
Author: Constance J Britton    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:13:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Experience with large Procite files? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I have a database with about 7800 items in it which we serve from an NT running Reference Web Poster. Response times are perfectly satisfactory. You're welcome to look at our implementation. http://www2.oardc.ohio-state.edu/RIS/RISWEB.ISA At 11:59 AM 11/16/98 -0600, you wrote: >Folks: > >I've been asked to contribute experience/advice on how to present a large >departmental library electronically which up until now has been on >hard-copy cards. > >One option I suggested was the Procite/Ref Web poster route, since grad >students/faculty might also want to search from home or office. > >Does anyone have any experience with 4,000 to 6,000 item procite files? > slow are they in: >a) Procite environment (with Pentium 400) >b) Ref Webposter (dedicated line--not modem-- and a solid server software > >gs >

Re: Experience with large Procite files
Author: Arledge, Genni B    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:57:26 -0600
Subject: Re: Experience with large Procite files? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain We use a database that is 8,400 items on a Pentium 133 and speed has never been a problem. We havn't loaded our Webposter yet though. Genni Arledge Librarian DoD Polygraph Institute Bldg 3195 & 13th Ave Ft. McClellan, AL 36205-5114 256-848-4703 > -----Original Message----- > From: George Swan > Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 11:59 AM > To: > Subject: Experience with large Procite files? > > Folks: > > I've been asked to contribute experience/advice on how to present a > large > departmental library electronically which up until now has been on > hard-copy cards. > > One option I suggested was the Procite/Ref Web poster route, since > grad > students/faculty might also want to search from home or office. > > Does anyone have any experience with 4,000 to 6,000 item procite > files? > slow are they in: > a) Procite environment (with Pentium 400) > b) Ref Webposter (dedicated line--not modem-- and a solid server > software > > gs >

Re: Experience with large Procite files
Author: STANLEY: Dr Philip    Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:37:41 -0000
Subject: Re: Experience with large Procite files? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am running ProCite 4.01 (under NT4) with a database now exceeding 52,000 records (incl. Abstracts which I have collected over 35 years) and the files of this amount to 300MB. The machine is running with two processors (266MHz) and 256 MB RAM. I get the impression that the amount of RAM is an important feature in the speed of searching. A few thousand references should not pose a speed problem. I have no experience with Ref Web Poster. ******************************************************************** Dr Philip Stanley Email: Tel: +44 1223-460888 FAX: +44 1223-461777 Cambridge Research & Technology Transfer Ltd 48 Glisson Road Cambridge CB1 2HF England ******************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List On Behalf Of George Swan Sent: 16 November 1998 17:59 To: Subject: Experience with large Procite files? Folks: I've been asked to contribute experience/advice on how to present a large departmental library electronically which up until now has been on hard-copy cards. One option I suggested was the Procite/Ref Web poster route, since grad students/faculty might also want to search from home or office. Does anyone have any experience with 4,000 to 6,000 item procite files? slow are they in: a) Procite environment (with Pentium 400) b) Ref Webposter (dedicated line--not modem-- and a solid server software gs

Re: Experience with large Procite files
Author: Jean Deacon    Posted: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:14:07 +1100
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:14:07 +1100 Reply-To: Jean Deacon Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: Jean Deacon Subject: Re: Experience with large Procite files? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, George Swan wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with 4,000 to 6,000 item procite files? > slow are they in: > a) Procite environment (with Pentium 400) I use two databases of about 4500 records, and they're fast. I use one of them to demonstrate with, and the audience is usually impressed with the speed of searching. > b) Ref Webposter (dedicated line--not modem-- and a solid server software Your problems here won't be with speed. RWP is quite quick to search. HOWEVER, think very carefully. RWP is actually designed for Reference Manager, another product from the RIS stable. RWP converts Procite databases to RefMan, but there are some fields which do not map correctly. I won't go into the details, as I presume you're not familiar with either product. However, before making a purchase, get the help desk to set out for you just how you can avoid problems. A second problem is that you can't actually print off a list of references from RWP: you have to do it screen by screen, or copy/paste each screen to compile a list. I really like Procite, but the current version of RWP is not mature. They expect an upgrade early next year, I believe. Best regards, Jean Jean Deacon - CSIRO _--_|\ Division of Minerals / \ tel +61 3 9545 8534 Box 312 Clayton South \_.--._/ fax +61 3 9562 8919 3168 AUSTRALIA v

Re: Experience with large Procite files
Author: Diana Robinson    Posted: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:07:05 +0000
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:07:05 +0000 Reply-To: Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Diana Robinson Organization: NYS Academy of Fire Science Subject: Re: Experience with large Procite files? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Dear Dr. Stanley: Our largest Procite database is about 25,000 records. An in-house search goes fairly fast; it does take somewhat longer on the RWP database which is on the Internet. If you'd like to test it out yourself, visit http://fire.lakenet.org We did have lots of problems getting the largest database to run. The smaller ones (1,000 to 4,000 records) loaded without any problems. The big one (articles) kept crashing. If it happens to you, re-index on the host computer, and then load into RWP. Diana Robinson, Librarian NYS OFPC, Academy of Fire Science PO Box 11, 600 College Ave. Montour Falls, NY 14865 607-535-7136 ext.605 (fax 535-4841)

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