Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies Turning information into knowledge
Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 KE EMu Object Locator Plot internal locations of objects on building floor plans Zoom & pan functionality 3-dimensional view capabilities Drill down into plotted points
Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies
Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 Some Uses for KE EMu Object Locator Finding objects in the museum Relocating objects Disaster recovery planning Self-guided tours
Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 KE EMu Web Maps Plot specimen collection locality information on world maps Use ESRI shape files (.shp) Use images (.png) Zoom and pan functionality Drill down into plotted points Hooks into Google Maps
Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies
Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 Some Uses for KE EMu Web Maps Species distribution Comparisons of distributions of species Geocode verification Collection ‘gap’ analysis
KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu Web Portal Web-based search facility for multiple EMu sites Distributes search to each EMu site concurrently Supports specimen level retrieval Supports aggregated analysis (KE EMu Web Maps)
KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu Web Portal Prototype Sites participating in prototype include: National Museum of Natural History, Washington Natural History Museum, London American Museum of Natural History, New York Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago New York Botanical Garden Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management
KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management 2 September 2005 Some Uses for KE EMu Portal Collaborative research Remote access to collection information “Global” views of species Identification of species Repatriation of specimen data Resource discovery