Universal Museum Database Universal Museum has a large collection of art objects

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Universal Museum Database Universal Museum has a large collection of art objects from at over the world. In order to manage this collection of valuable art objects efficiently, the management of Universal Museum considered of hiring a consulting firm to develop and install a database application The database should contain information about different art collections specific art objects in the collections, ownership of the objects the artists who created them, the curators who look after them, insurance contracts for these art objects Following are requirements for his database. Each art object of the museum is part of a specific collection. An art collection has an identification number, a theme and the display location. A number of characteristics of a specific art object in a collection are kept in the database. An art object has an identification number and a title Its value and creation date are also spoofed in the database. The museum sometimes lends out or borrows an objects for special/seasonal exhibitions. If the art object is lent out to another institution, information of the borrower is kept. Similarly, if the art object a borrowed from another institution or estate. then information of the lender is kept n the database The borrowing date and returning date are recorded. The artist who created the art objects) is also represented in the database. An artist has an identification number, and hit/her name, year of birth, country of origin (for an antique object, the name of the artist will be the name of country of origin.) The database keeps information about the curators who look after the art objects. Information on curator includes identification number, name, office location and his/her pager number. Each curator is responsible for many art objects. One of the curators is assigned as the supervisor of a specific collection. All the art objects (owned as well as borrowed) in the museum are insured. The database contains information about the insurance companies including the company name. address, and phone number. It is noted that a company may provide insurances for many art objects of the museum. Due to its high value, an art object could be insured by many insurance companies. Information on insurance contract such as insured value, premium paid, and expiration date are kept in the database. Tasks: Draw an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERO) - with related attributes -to represent the conceptual model for the art collection database at Universal Museum. Translate this ERO into a Relational Data Model. Create a Data Dictionary for this database. If you use MS Access to implement this database, how does the Access Relationship Window look like?

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Relational Model includes: Relations, Tuples, Attributes, keys and foreign keys.

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