I have tried a number of database type of programmes, and found none of them having enough flexibility to adapt to the special needs required to catalogue maps. The majority were rather inflexible and very often constructed for general collecting purposes. With this experience I decided to make my own database under the platform of Microsoft Access. Although not very simple to work with, I was able to compile a database according to my own needs. The advantage of Access is that you are offered the possibility of making a database from scratch.
Access even offers a number of templates which can be used as a basis to work on.
It takes some time to master the programme, but after a while one should be able to make a simple database. Wish it could be easier. . Relational database was too much trouble. 10 Excel 2000 Decided on this as I am familiar with earlier versions. Took 5 years to discover the concatenate function.