  In this paper we present the "Small Bodies: Near and Far" Infrared Database,
an easy-to-use tool intended to facilitate the modeling of thermal emission of
small Solar System bodies. Our database collects thermal emission measurements
of small Solar Systems targets that are otherwise available in scattered
sources and gives a complete description of the data, with all information
necessary to perform direct scientific analyses and without the need to access
additional, external resources. This public database contains representative
data of asteroid observations of large surveys (e.g. AKARI, IRAS and WISE) as
well as a collection of small body observations of infrared space telescopes
(e.g. the Herschel Space Observatory) and provides a web interface to access
this data (https://ird.konkoly.hu). We also provide an example for the direct
application of the database and show how it can be used to estimate the thermal
inertia of specific populations, e.g. asteroids within a given size range. We
show how different scalings of thermal inertia with heliocentric distance (i.e.
temperature) may affect our interpretation of the data and discuss why the
widely-used radiative conductivity exponent ($\alpha$=-3/4) might not be
adequate in general, as hinted by previous studies.
