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The Oriental Institute Integrated Database (IDB)

In an effort to merge all of the Oriental Institute's records, documents, photographs, and field records into a single integrated computer database (IDB), the Institute has purchased the KS Software Emu (Electronic Museum) database system.

Software installation and training will start in November 2010, with data migration to follow over the winter, and the new integrated database should be up and running in the winter 2011 to spring 2012.

Access to the public component of our Integrated Database will start soon after the system is up and running in winter 2011 to spring 2012 via a link from the Oriental Institute website.

Although we will start the Integrated Database with only our Museum Registration database and our Research Archives (Library) Catalog moved to the new IDB system, current plans suggest the IDB in three to ten years will contain the following Institute records and data:

Museum Registration: paper records and various computer database files; 180,000 registered objects - 150,000 unregistered objects. Annual expansion is uneven, but 5,000 to 10,000 unregistered objects are registered.

Museum Conservation: paper records and various computer database files; 75,000 analysis and treatment records, and images. Annual expansion circa 2,000 - 8,000 records and images.

Museum Archives: paper documents, field records, photographic negatives and prints. 10,000,000 paper documents - 200,000 images and prints. Annual expansion circa 20,000 records, images, and prints.

Research (Library) Archives: paper records and online catalog; 250,000 records in our current online library catalog, 400,000 cards from the Institute's former library card catalog, 40,000 additional records to finish retrospective cataloguing. Annual expansion circa 10,000 records.

Research (Library) Archives: Ancient Near Eastern Map Collections; 4,000 paper maps. Annual expansion circa 50 maps.

Satellite and Aerial Photographic imagery (both rectified and non-rectified images); 7,500 image files at present. Annual expansion circa 10,000 images per year for next three years.

Oriental Institute publications; 500 publications in Adobe PDF files. Annual expansion circa 10 Adobe PDF files.

Revised: August 29, 2011

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