Shoebox management tool

[David Nash]

A few years ago David Rowbory distributed his tool for merging
for concurrent Shoebox lexicons.  He calls it ShoeShop (MacShoeShop or
WinShoeShop) but it is written in Java so can run on many operating
systems.

To quote from his documentation file:

"	    Safe Merging for Concurrent Shoebox Databases
Executive Summary
Like most software, SILs Shoebox linguistic database software is
designed for only one user at a time.  But in a big lexicon project,
after the initial gathering of data, it may be that many people would
want to work on the same project at once, and possibly spread around
different locations.  ShoeShop lets several people work on a copy of
the full database file making changes as they see fit, adding,
deleting and changing records, and then allows all these changes to be
brought together (merged) to make a new reference copy of the
database.  Any conflicting changes, such as 2 people independently
changing the same record, are brought to the users attention so they
can decide what should be done.
Warning: this program makes a tricky and tedious process a bit easier,
but do take care, and please make sure you understand how to use
ShoeShop before relying on it for big projects."

David Rowbory has placed it at http://www.geocities.com/david_rowbory
-- which he says is a temporary link.

I have added a link to this from
http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/lexicog/tools.html (revised
from http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/rsrch/workshop/dictionary/tools.htm)
and part of http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/lexicog/

I haven't used this myself, and I expect the list would be interested
in reports from anyone who has tried it.

David Nash