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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

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Page 1: Collections Management A superior collections management system for the world’s largest: Museums Art Galleries Historical Societies Herbaria Botanic Gardens

Collections Management

A superior collections management system for the world’s largest:• Museums• Art Galleries• Historical Societies• Herbaria• Botanic Gardens• Special Collections

KE EMu

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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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections

• Document your objects

Harvesting

Back CaptureRaw

Catalogue Data

Collecting

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Collections Management

2 September 2005

KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections

• Document your objects

• Enrich your information

with multimedia Collecting

RawCatalogue

Data

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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

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Collections Management

KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections

• Document your objects

• Enrich your information

with multimedia

• Manage associated information

• Publish your knowledge

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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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

Manage your collections

Central Catalogue

LocationsInternal

Movements

Events

Loans

External Movements

Conservation/ Condition Check

Insurance/ Indemnity

Deaccessioning

Accession Lots

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Collections Management

2 September 2005

“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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

Document your objectsObject

Information

Natural HistoryCultural History

Anthropology Art Social History

Works on Paper

Prints Sculptures

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Collections Management

2 September 2005

Document your objectsObject

Information

Natural HistoryCultural History

Paleontology Botany Entomology Invertebrate Zoology

Vertebrate Zoology

Earth Sciences

Herpetology Ichthyology Mammalogy Ornithology

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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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

Enrich your information with multimedia

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Collections Management

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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

“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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

Publish your knowledge

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Collections Management

2 September 2005

Publish your knowledge

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Collections Management

2 September 2005

Publish your knowledge

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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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Collections Management

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

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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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Collections Management

2 September 2005

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

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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