Using Databases to Facilitate Electronic Access Projects

• Useful for a variety of functions: collections and records control, information storage and retrieval, workflow tracking, and records management
• Both internal and/or external uses can be developed
• Choice of existing specialized software, customizing standard database programs, or programming an original database from scratch
• Data can be manipulated and exported in any number of presentation formats
• Can be used to describe collections at any single level, or multiple levels
• Quality and consistency of data entry essential for any database to be truly functional

Online Examples

• Landscape Architecture Image Resource (LAIR), Collaborative Project Involving Landscape Architecture Departments from Six Universities
• San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, San Francisco Public Library
• SPIRO, University of California, Berkeley Architecture Slide Library

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