Data Base on the Specimens and Materials in Nagoya University Museum

Application of a handy DBMS ‘YAWL’

Abstract

This paper describes an attempt to make Data Base on rock and fossil specimens in Nagoya University Museum, by utilizing a handy Data Base Management System ‘YAWL’. The input data format of ‘YAWL’ is as follows;
AUTHOR (YEAR) TITLE/MAGAZINE/KEYWORD/WHY
The maximum 900 alphanumeric and Japanese kana letters are allowed to put in, throughout the above six items, only with partition marks (parenthesis and slash) .
According to the data structure of rock and fossil specimen, it is undertaken to use the six items in the following way;
AUTHOR: Sample No. and Name of Region
YEAR: (year)
TITLE: Name of Sample, Horizon, ……
MAGAZINE: Name of Locality, Date of excavation, ……
KEYWORD: Person's Name, Memo, ……
WHY: Data Package, Deposition Place, ……
Underlines indicate an essential part of information concerned. This work has just started in Nagoya University Museum, still here remain many things to be discussed. Establishment of the network system for excange of these data among several museums will be inevitable.