EMu in extremis Larry Gall Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University

EMu in extremis

Not a desired EMu user experience…

EMu in extremis

Not a desired EMu server computer status…

EMu in extremis

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Peabody: Stardate 2011 EMu in extremis (1) (sensu stricto) EMu in extremis (2) (not so stricto at all) System Showcases Code details & live demos (Friday morning)

AnthropologyBotanyEntomology Invertebrate Paleontology Invertebrate Zoology Meteorites & Planetary Science MineralogyPaleobotany Scientific Instruments Vertebrate Paleontology Vertebrate Zoology

~12 million specimens

New York City

Yale Campus

Environmental Science Center Yale “West Campus” Peabody Museum (founded 1866)

Peabody Collections Counts & Functional Cataloguing Unit Anthropology 300,000Lot Botany 400,000Individual Entomology 850,000Lot / Individual Invertebrate Paleontology 350,000Lot Invertebrate Zoology 350,000Lot Mineralogy 35,000Individual Paleobotany 150,000Individual Scientific Instruments 6,000Individual Vertebrate Paleontology 125,000Individual Vertebrate Zoology 200,000Lot / Individual 2.7 million database-able units => ~12 million items

Peabody Collections Functional Units Databased Anthropology 300, % Botany 400, % Entomology 850, % Invertebrate Paleontology 350, % Invertebrate Zoology 350, % Mineralogy 35, % Paleobotany 150, % Scientific Instruments 6, % Vertebrate Paleontology 125, % Vertebrate Zoology 200, % 1,402,000 of 2.7 million => 51 % overall

All Curatorial Departments sharing a single collections management system

Peabody: Stardate 2011 EMu in extremis (1) (sensu stricto) Corporate Systems

Stardate: 1966

Corporate Systems Stardate: 2011

Corporate Systems

Expansive, Technologically Complex, Powerful, “My Way”

Corporate Systems

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Corporate Systems Foreign ^ _______ Analogues to corporate Borg Collectives within academia

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Bjorn the Borg

Corporate Systems Foreign ^ _______ We’re still missing someone…

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Yale Digital Commons (YDC)

YUAG YCBA YPM YUL

DAM CCD MULTIMEDIA RECORDS Harvest / store XML as OT model Crosswalk to CCD model CATALOGUE RECORDS Harvest / store XML as DwC model Crosswalk to CCD model

DAM CCD Feed these Borgs:

DAM CCD Keep It Simple Stupid Feed these Borgs:

CCD Feed these Borgs: enable the built in OAI-PMH provider, change a few lines to key off new values in the SecRecordStatus field, these control permissions/security of items sent off to the YDC

Feed these Borgs: DAM scripts on EMu server that create Library of Congress “bags”, wrap them into tar files, and ship them off to drop boxes in the YDC that are watched by the DAM ingest monitor programs; log scraper scripts round-trip DAM ids back into EMu

Feed these Borgs: DAM scripts on EMu server that create Library of Congress “bags”, wrap them into tar files, and ship them off to drop boxes in the YDC that are watched by the DAM ingest monitor programs; log scraper scripts round-trip DAM ids back into EMu XML ID MD5

Corporate Systems Foreign ^ _______

1. Fond 2. Series 3. Folder/File

1. Fond 2. Series 3. Folder/File 4. Item 7 default EAD tabs 2 custom EAD tabs all EAD elements

1. Fond 2. Series 3. Folder/File 4. Item

Yale is aggressively pursuing a campus wide strategy for all its digital assets, and the YDC Borg offers a DAM & across-domain discovery capability Cost share, put YPM assets into new contexts for scholarly engagement Place YPM’s non-biological collections in proximity to their Yale peers YPM Anthropology & Instruments Department assets more closely related those in other Borg cubes within the YDC e.g., Art Gallery, than to YPM biological assets Assimilate some of YPM’s digital “orphans” directly into the YDC Borg Digital collections assets handled by EMu, but no such curatorial system exists for non-collections assets (e.g., Events, Exhibits, Public Education) Test

Peabody: Stardate 2011 EMu in extremis (1) (sensu stricto) EMu in extremis (2) (not so stricto at all)

An Ode To KE On its 25 th Birthday In Verse

Back at a Stardate of yore We see here an assemblage of four Early KE providers They’re original insiders Who started off right on the ground floor

They felt they could make a great splash And be much more than a passing flash For museums they came fightin’ With a product called Titan And their competitors started to crash

Museum software is risky you say But playing pool is too, in a way Here they’re off their bar stools And protecting family jewels As the cue ball comes heading their way

Now here’s a perplexing sight Look's like John's got that blindfold on tight And to that EMu named Percy Ian’s showing no mercy I suspect they'll be at him all night

In Pensacola last year they did play Dave Smith showed a slide yesterday Of Warren flying a plane And here’s Bern at the rein With Andrew trying to keep him at bay

My doggerel streak comes from Big Jim My late grandfather, who could spout it on a whim It's become a family tradition On birthdays to commission Something ribald, and racy, yet trim

For Al, cooking looks like a thrill It’s so much fun to throw things on the grill The guests are hungrily observing What that Aussie’s now serving And they’ll soon be eating their fill

Behold, the pontificating Brown Many beers have already gone down He seems able to cope But the group must still hope That he won't start to act like a clown

These smug guys think their clever and smart That their code's the state of the art Still they should seek to improve To stay locked in the groove Emuload is where you could start

Here’s where they built the emuload script To keep texpress running quite swift You have Stop, Start, and Status (b) To keep IMU comin' at us Now add some more options, catch my drift

Here’s where they built the emuload script To keep texpress running quite swift You have Stop, Start, and Status To keep IMU comin' at us Now add some more options, catch my drift Stop Start Status IMU

Here's some redirects your clients could use I can't think of anyone who'd refuse This surely expands EMu's reach (4) We could all retire on the beach And never more have a case of the blues emuload gold_bars > tepapa

Here's some redirects your clients could use I can't think of anyone who'd refuse This surely expands EMu's reach (4) We could all retire on the beach And never more have a case of the blues emuload gold_bars > tepapa emuload oil_profits > nmnh

Here's some redirects your clients could use I can't think of anyone who'd refuse This surely expands EMu's reach (4) We could all retire on the beach And never more have a case of the blues emuload gold_bars > tepapa emuload oil_profits > nmnh emuload cold_cash > nhm

Here's some redirects your clients could use I can't think of anyone who'd refuse This surely expands EMu's reach (4) We could all retire on the beach And never more have a case of the blues emuload gold_bars > tepapa emuload oil_profits > nmnh emuload cold_cash > nhm emuload hot_chocolate > all

Oh now isn’t this just sweet Ben’s treating Percy like so much dead meat That poor emu wasn’t told He’d have to stay out in the cold (b) With the snow howling over his feet

Oh now isn’t this just sweet Ben’s treating Percy like so much dead meat That poor emu wasn’t told He’d have to stay out in the cold (b) With the snow howling over his feet

(left to right, sung to the tune of “The ABC Song”) Nick, Luca, Ian, Bern Andrew, Grant, John, Stu Percy, Hannah, Vibha, Kim, Gerard (b) Ian, Alex, Christelle, James, Ben Now I've sung a good part of KE How much more embarrassing can this be

(left to right, sung to the tune of “The ABC Song”) Nick, Luca, Ian, Bern Andrew, Grant, John, Stu Percy, Hannah, Vibha, Kim, Gerard (b) Ian, Alex, Christelle, James, Ben Now I've sung a good part of KE How much more embarrassing can this be

Committing taxonomy can be Rather challenging, and take a wizard to see What distinguishes a dog (c) From a mouse, sheep, or hog They all look like EMus to me

Committing taxonomy can be Rather challenging, and take a wizard to see What distinguishes a dog (c) From a mouse, sheep, or hog They all look like EMus to me Bern

Committing taxonomy can be Rather challenging, and take a wizard to see What distinguishes a dog (c) From a mouse, sheep, or hog They all look like EMus to me Bern

What a feat of persistence and might KE's 25 years old... all right! Australia House beckons soon (b) For laughs, drinks, and a swoon Let's party down hearty tonight

What a feat of persistence and might KE's 25 years old... all right! Australia House beckons soon (b) For laughs, drinks, and a swoon Let's party down hearty tonight

So we've ultimately come to the end Of the doggerel, my fine feathered friend For it’s every day I would venture to say That on EMu we all do depend

Happy Birthday KE And Many More…