University of Chicago (Oriental Institute Museum)

The Oriental Institute Museum will undertake Phase II of its integrated database project to improve its data management infrastructure and thereby increase its ability to provide information about its ancient Middle East collections to diverse audiences around the world, including scholars and researchers to K-12 educators and students, 21st-century learners, and the general public. In Phase I of the project, also supported by IMLS, staff moved registration and research archives datasets into a new KE EMu collections management system. In Phase II, they will import 92,000 images with associated metadata and approximately 70,000 conservation records into the new system. They will also conduct three user focus groups to develop the next iteration of the web interface.