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The Finnish National Gallery Database implementation

The Finnish National Gallery Database implementation. Juha Inkari Aimari Oy inkari@iki.fi. The Finnish National Gallery Database implementation. Old/current relational database New relational database designed for CRM compatibility in mind

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The Finnish National Gallery Database implementation

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  1. The Finnish National GalleryDatabase implementation Juha Inkari Aimari Oy inkari@iki.fi

  2. The Finnish National Gallery Database implementation • Old/current relational database • New relational database designed for CRM compatibility in mind • Conversion application to copy database contents from the old database to the new database • Task specific user-interface (10 modules)

  3. Starting point • ”Flat” schema • Missing data or data in wrong place • First correct and cleanup data in the current/old database • average 1 error correcting update per row

  4. New database • SqlServer 2000 RDMS • can be managed • Use CRM as a guideline • Compatibility • in the future possible to export database in a CRM compatible XML Document

  5. Support for CRM • Mapping from current data structures and data to relevant CRM structures was done • Based on needed CRM structures a relational database schema was designed

  6. ”Flat” schema • Source database

  7. Step 1 : Add Events

  8. Step 2 : Add Actor

  9. Step 3 : Add Place

  10. Step 4 : Add Time-Span

  11. Add Activity and properties to support documentation needs

  12. Normalised database The normalised database has tables for • objects • actors • events • places • time-spans Yet there has not been a need to denormalise for performance

  13. Order or precedence • Catalogers want to keep the order of precedence • classifications • work of art is classified to be as more of a type ”drawing” than of a type ”painting” • materials and techniques • broader term like ”metal” before specialized term like ”bronze”. Also main materials are listed before supplemental and not so important materials.

  14. Production carried out by extensions • Order of precedence to keep list of artists in the precise order requested by the artists themselves • Note used to document unknown artists School of work • Belief/certainty field • Belief/certainty classification • Mutually exclusive cases

  15. Original and reproduction

  16. Missing original • Shortcut to enable joining subject and time of production for example

  17. Making CRM ”user friendly” • Users do have some kind of mental model about the system • our userbase refers to object records as ”cards” • Focus attention to the work problems like classification • Users could apply their CRM knowledge (if there would be any) to work problems

  18. Goals • Revise the cataloging rules from 1998 • the new cataloging rules should somehow refer to CRM • In the future with successfull training curators developing cataloging rules could also map those documentation needs to CRM

  19. Thats all folks

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