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We shall continue using flat files for raw data. We will shift to MySQL database for analyzed data. A Perl script can be used to transfer analyzed data from flat files to the database.
Zafar 6/19/2012.
The webpage also contains final schema. We believe this information should be good enough to tweak and deploy database oriented archive site while preserving raw data as flat files. If the people who will pursue this have doubts then me and Sadia can help them resolve those doubts. Moreover I believe this shouldn't take more than 1-2 months (from development/fine-tuning to deployment).