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Computer-aided database system for geological museum specimens, “GEMS”, is on the way of revision in the Geological Survey of Japan, being based upon its first small in-house version of“GEMS-I”, developed in 1975.
In the revised “GEMS-II” system, the data-file is described in dual language system of English and Japanese. Selected fundamental attributes are registration number, sample name, locality, collector's name, etc. Completed work-files are stored and handled under the hardware-software environments of RIPS, which is the centralized host computer system in the Agency of Industrial Science of Teachnology (AIST), MITT, in Tsukuba Science City.
Routine retrieval jobs are available through the individual user terminals either on-line mode or batch mode, while file maintenance works are limited only by the curators.
After the nearest future of final completion, this advanced system should be helpful to the most of researchers for supporting the adequate use of more than 70, 000 items of the collection in the Geological Museum.
