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Databases in architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Valerie J. Nurcombe
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Abstract

A survey of architectural databases and other databases with relevant content, both currently available and prospective. The article also identifies some problems and gaps in the field, and predicts some likely developments. This is a revised version of a paper delivered at the ARLIS/UKOLOG seminar on databases in art and the humanities, 24 February 1984, in Manchester, England.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Spring 1984 , pp. 44 - 60
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1984

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