RoS -- A NEW DATABASE SYSTEM IN THE GLIWICE RADIOCARBON LABORATORY.

The idea of creating radiocarbon database came up in late 80's. In this time the staff of the Gliwice Radiocarbon Laboratory started developing the local database GdRDB that should contain all dates of samples measured in this laboratory. This first database had a simple structure - only one file. Later modification of GdRDB database in 1994 introduced changes in its structure, and the modified database had seven files. The modification was made in order to adapt GdRDB to databases already existing (in Japan, Great Britain and Yugoslavia) and to make it match the standard established by the International Radiocarbon Database (IRDB). The new database system was developed in the Gliwice Radiocarbon Laboratory in 2002. This system consists of five relational databases containing all information about submitters and institutions, samples, sites and the dating process. The access to these databases and management of data is provided through an application called Register of Samples Editor (RoSE). The RoS system is supplied with the Data Analyse application enabling analyses of database content and Web Assistant programme, which generates web pages containing information about dated archival samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]