Database as a new genre

The database is the new genre of the 21st century, a new way of expressing the meaning of human experiences. At the moment I am head of the STII Web Databases System. Out of the databases we produce publications. For instance, from the Scientists Database, we publish the Philippine Men and Women of Science. I am now editing the manuscript. I have learned that the period after each of the bibliographic entries in the Papers Presented and Publications can be programmed. The same with the period after et al. The same thing for the comma after the name of every author if there are several authors of an article. Our programmer promises to do this for the print format of the future issues. Meanwhile, I have to manually put all the missing periods. I will do this now and not ask anymore the data encoder to go back to the records to make the corrections. I console myself with the thought that next time, my quality assurance (proofreading / editing tasks) will be easier.