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Collections Management
A superior collections management system for the world’s largest:• Museums• Art Galleries• Historical Societies• Herbaria• Botanic Gardens• Special Collections
KE EMu
Collections Management
2 September 2005
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections Outgoing Loan
Incoming Shipment
Loan Return
Exhibitions
InternalMovements
Insurance
Conservation
Outgoing Shipment
Incoming Shipment
Outgoing Loan
Loan Return
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KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
Harvesting
Back CaptureRaw
Catalogue Data
Collecting
Collections Management
2 September 2005
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia Collecting
RawCatalogue
Data
Collections Management
2 September 2005
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia
• Manage associated information
NarrativesRaw
Catalogue Data
Collections Management
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia
• Manage associated information
• Publish your knowledge
Collections Management
2 September 2005
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia
• Manage associated information
• Publish your knowledge
• Participate in the global museum
community
Museum Web Portal
…Non-KE EMu siteKE EMu site 1 KE EMu site 2
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Manage your collections
Central Catalogue
LocationsInternal
Movements
Events
Loans
External Movements
Conservation/ Condition Check
Insurance/ Indemnity
Deaccessioning
Accession Lots
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“It has empowered our curators to enhance the Fish Collection in ways not possible before”
Dr. Darrell J. Siebert – Fish GroupThe Natural History Museum, UK
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Document your objectsObject
Information
Natural HistoryCultural History
Anthropology Art Social History
Works on Paper
Prints Sculptures
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Document your objectsObject
Information
Natural HistoryCultural History
Paleontology Botany Entomology Invertebrate Zoology
Vertebrate Zoology
Earth Sciences
Herpetology Ichthyology Mammalogy Ornithology
Collections Management
2 September 2005
“Data entry staff were inputting new records into EMu faster than the old system within three weeks of going live”
Larry Gall – Head, Computer Systems OfficePeabody Museum of Natural History – Yale University, USA
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Enrich your information with multimedia
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2 September 2005
Manage associated information - Narratives• Supports the creation and publication of interpretative information
stories, research papers, interactive exhibits, etc
• Ties together objects, spatial and temporal data with people, events
and multimedia
• Accessible over the Web
• Designed to capture the knowledge
of the experts within the institution
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“Community-based Narratives has reconnected the Museum and its collections to source communities and users around the world”
Malcolm Chapman – Head of Collections ManagementManchester Museum, UK
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Publish your knowledge• Standard Internet and Intranet
interfaces to published Narratives,
Catalogue, Taxonomy and other
related information
• Implemented using commonly
used web technologies
• Completely configurable on-site
• Many tools for the development of
project-specific Web interfaces
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Publish your knowledge
Collections Management
2 September 2005
Publish your knowledge
Collections Management
2 September 2005
Publish your knowledge
Collections Management
2 September 2005
Participate in the global museum community• A single gateway to a range of KE EMu and non-KE EMu data sources
• Dynamic and concurrent searching of live data sets
• The KE EMu Web Portal accumulates the results from each data
source and dynamically produces a summary of all matching resources
• KE EMu is a GBIF DiGIR provider
• Standard Darwin Core fields incorporated in all Natural History
catalogues for ease of data sharing
• Flexible XML reporting functionality
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2 September 2005
“KE Software’s commitment to the continual improvement of their product is one of their most endearing qualities!”
Barbara M. Thiers, Ph.D. – Director of Herbarium The New York Botanical Garden, USA
Collections Management
Some KE EMu Clients• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution• American Museum of Natural History, New York• Natural History Museum, London• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago• New York Botanical Gardens• Carnegie Museum of Art, PA• Winterthur Museum and Garden, DE• Walt Disney Imagineering, Burbank, CA• Royal Academy of Music, London• Chicago Institute of Science and Industry, IL• Canadian Museum of Civilization• Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
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World wide KE EMu User Community• Australasia
Successful meetings each year since 2002
• UK & Europe
Annual user group meeting hosted in Manchester or London since 2003
• North American
First official meeting held in Chicago, October 2005
• The Natural History Users Special Interest Group
Led by NMNH, AMNH, NHM, NYBG, Field
Annual meetings since 2004
• www.emuusers.org – World wide on-line user group forum
Collections Management
2 September 2005
“KE Software have proven excellent to deal with. We have found them reliable and straight forward in their approach to our requirements”
Lynne McNairn – User Systems AdministratorPowerhouse Museum, Australia
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