Opinion about new GLO Reference Manual

[Trey_P-I_47]

Ok fellas i just wanted to see what you all thought about a new reference manual similar to a Bairds Manual.

There is starting to be some new discussion about this seeing as the last edition is from 1991.
**Discussion is under Greek Life and 'The Chronological Evolvement of Sororities'

Apparently NICs official position is that they arent really interested in a new edition due to low sales of the last edition. So someone mentioned maybe having the NPC purchase the rights and maybe get them to redo it.

I think its a great idea, but i also think we should step it up to the technology and times. I think maybe a whole new format and possibly title would be best.

In a nut shell I think it should be an electronic database that is extremely detailed (obviously without including ritualistic and other closed material), easily searchable and sortable.

For example if you wanted to search the founding of some obscure local, you could type in the name and then sort by school until you found the one you were looking for. The really great thing is massive amounts of information can be stored electronically, so you could have very comprehensive and accurate recording of what happened.

Just think about how much information could be stored as text via a 'now' single standard blu-ray disc, that is approx 25 GIGABYTES of memory, and if thats not enough it could easily be 'boxed-set' upto even 100 GBs.

It would seem relatively inexpensive, and instead of wasting money on printing a new editon and continually updating and printing newer ones, you could intially use the money to help fund the massive amount of research and transcribing and sorting all of the data. Also think how easy it would be to update, worst case scenario you either buy an expansion disk, set to the old format, or update altogether, either way it would be simple and cheap.

Anyway thats whats bouncing around my brain at 1 in the freaking morning.

Any opinions, ideas, possible database programs to use, etc etc.

In ZAX