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From 1989 to 1999 the DAC collection catalog was maintained in HyperCard, an authoring application. In the late 1990s we developed an interim collections database management system in-house (due to functional needs, legacy data issues, and the cost and feature sets of off-the-shelf software then available). From 2000 through 2010, it provided a reliable, secure, and flexible environment for standardizing and enhancing collections information. That system was accessible at the DAC, where it supported staff, faculty, and student access for teaching, research, exhibitions, collections management, and other museum operations.
As of January 2011, we moved the DAC's collections management operations to a new system developed and supported by a leading vendor in that product space. That system provides a more sustainable model for future development and support. Since August 2012, it also now exports selected object data to DAC Collection Search online, which provides searchable web access for students, faculty, researchers, and the public.
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