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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Accession database contained objects from the campus medical museum—historic/cultural objects from the field of medicine and the university’s college of
medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cindy Opitz</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">11 Macbride Hall</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uiowa.edu/mnh"><span style="color:blue">www.uiowa.edu/mnh</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gil Nelson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 01, 2014 7:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bentley, Andrew Charles; Gary Shugart<br>
<b>Cc:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Yes, saw this, but it didn't seem right for collection object. Cindy, what was being databased?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/1/2014 7:36 PM, Bentley, Andrew Charles wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://open2dprot.sourceforge.net/Accession/indexRefMan.html">http://open2dprot.sourceforge.net/Accession/indexRefMan.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing you cannot find on Google :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andy<br>
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Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Jan 1, 2014, at 3:55 PM, "Gary Shugart" <<a href="mailto:gshugart@ups.edu">gshugart@ups.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All: Crowd sourcing? Maybe put it in Dropbox or google cloud share (via gmail) an let folks that have Macs have a look at it if not too large. If it a run time application it might run on older Macs (like I have here). I now use
FileMaker on the Mac. As far as getting data out, there is probably an export or convert utility somewhere in the program.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I wrote a program in 4D (4th Dimension) for the Mac back in 1992 and one component was called Accession. The other was Catalog. But as far as I know it didn't go beyond a few museums out here. <o:p></o:p></p>
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Collections Manager<br>
Slater Museum of Natural History <br>
University of Puget Sound <o:p></o:p></p>
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Tacoma, WA 98416-1088<br>
253 879-3356 (museum)<br>
<a href="mailto:gshugart@pugetsound.edu">gshugart@pugetsound.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">From: <a href="mailto:annm@austin.utexas.edu">
annm@austin.utexas.edu</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">
nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:58:38 +0000<br>
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As far as I know there is no MS Access on a Mac-yet-unless you are running the Mac as a PC. If you notice the MS Office suite for the Mac contains no Access as one of the programs included in the bundle, unlike the PC version. There is
an Access - like program within OpenOffice which I have heard had poor import/export tools. I do not know that program but it could account for your colleague's problem. OpenOffice went away in 2011 but I believe there are successors. If you are certain it
is MS Access the file endings may be .mdb or .aaccdb- depending on the version of Access you have been using or updated to since 1990's.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">"<a href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, January 1, 2014 3:14 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Wondering the same thing, myself. Could be a custom Access db renamed to Accession. Check the file extension. If Access, it'll be mdb.<br>
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Department of Biological Sciences<br>
Simon Fraser University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="ecxmsonormal">Does anyone have experience with software called “Accession”? A collection on campus databased objects on an iMac in the 1990s using “Accession” software and now has no access to the information. I’m not familiar with the program. The
collection manager currently uses Past Perfect for a different collection and would like help figuring out how to retrieve the data from Accession for use in Past Perfect. Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cindy Opitz</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Collections Manager</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">11 Macbride Hall</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The University of Iowa</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Iowa City IA 52242</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="ecxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">319-335-0481</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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