STA Project Showcase

Journal of San Diego History (JSDH) Database

Professor: Colin Fisher
Department of History
STA: Yasmin Makki
Semester: Spring 2007

Project Overview: Create an editable online journal database of San Diego history.

The JSDH Database was originally located on a hard drive in the history department on campus. Professor Fisher sought a way to make these files accessible online. To this end, Professor Fisher found an online database website which allowed the STA to convert the Filemaker Pro files into Excel (.csv) files, organize them, and edit them.

A great deal of editing needed to be done in order for the project to be completed. The among other formatting issues, the numbers and dates had not transferred correctly and had to be manually edited.

Out of the 462 files that were originally on the hard drive in the history department, all 462 files were successfully moved online.