University of Chicago (Oriental Institute Museum)

The Oriental Institute Museum will begin a three-phase integrated database project directed toward producing and developing—for in-house and public use—a fully integrated database management system of the museum’s collection. The museum will move its diverse digital data into a new integrated database that will allow for significant improvements in the management of collections. It will also allow for broad public access to their collections, almost none of which are currently available online. The Oriental Institute Museum is a major component of the Oriental Institute, a research unit of the University of Chicago that is devoted to the study of the archaeology, history, and languages of the civilizations of the ancient Middle East.