Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 EMu (And where to from there!) Bernard Marshall Chief Technical Officer KE Software

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Overview EMu (28 June 2010) EMu (Dec 2010) EMu And beyond

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Export Schedules Facility Schedule the export of data on a periodic basis (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) Specify a TexQL condition to restrict records exported Default output is XML (same format as report data) Filter may be used to translate the XML into required output format (e.g. CSV) Select fields to export and optionally select a sort order Exported data placed into “logs” by default, although filters may or transfer output

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Export Schedules Facility Export may be run from client on matching records Schedules module contains details about each export defined in the Export Properties dialogue box Exports module contains an audit trail of all exports executed

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Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Updating Data With Import Facility Record update extended to allow:  appending (+, 2+, row=‘+’, row=‘2+’)  prepending (-, 2-, row=‘-’, row=‘2-’)  replacing (2=, row=‘2=’) of data in tables and nested tables Ability to “group” columns so appended data is added to the same row for all columns (group=“name”) Support for XML and CSV imports Improved loading time for CSV imports

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Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Support For RTL Languages Complete overhaul of support for RTL languages Added client support for Hebrew New Arabic translations HTML editor component upgraded to support LTR/RTL languages

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 ArcExplorer Report Viewer Free lightweight GIS viewer (ESRI) Design a report of type “Arc Explorer” and select Lat/Long fields Extra data fields may be used for point data Support for layers (e.g. rainfall, boundaries) Can define layers and map to use for report Pan/Zoom support

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Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Hierarchy Tree View Show parent/child relationships as a tree view Useful for Narratives and Taxonomy

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Support For Alpha Channel Image resolution generation now supports images with an Alpha (transparency) channel Image Quality Specify the percentage image quality retained for derived images with lossy formats Default of 100% implies no loss of quality Quality value specified in Resolutions Registry entry

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Speed Improvements Importation and addition of multimedia links to files Record insertions, edits and global changes Audit trail processing User’s Group In Status Bar Display group name of current user in Status Bar Useful for users who need to be in more than one group (using different user names)

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 References Tab Added To Conservation Requested via EMuUsers.org Fast mechanism for adding local citation information

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 General Generate Resolution settings saved between sessions Disable compression of large tables (audit, statistics) Adjusted precision of calculated centroid for a single pair of Lat/Long values Button to copy “About” information to clipboard “Tasks” tab added to Location module

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Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 IMu – EMu Internet Framework New framework for EMu web development Three tiered model Extensible application server for middle tier (logic level) Application server supports EMu object model (luts, security, etc.) Supports record updates and insertions Multiple client side libraries:  PHP  Perl .Net  Java Supports searching across multiple modules

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 IMu – EMu Internet Framework Presentation LayerLogic Layer Data Layer EMu Database Server IMu Application Server Web Application IMu Library Client side library User application Object model Object security Business logic Extensible Data model Data security

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 IMu Web Client Internet/Intranet interface to EMu collection Web 2.0 based components (e.g. auto-complete) Theme-able client pages MVC setup (XML -> XSLT -> HTML) Collection List Management Displays results from multiple modules Customisable interface via XSLT

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Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 IMu Multimedia Service Extension to IMu application server to provide access to Multimedia Repository media Request dynamic generation of images with given format and size Request metadata associated with media Allow import of new images and update of existing images Imported images to have resolutions generated automatically (as per EMu client)

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Support For Multiple Groups A user may be listed in multiple groups Only one group is active at any given time Mechanism provided to allow user to switch between groups System to alter access reflecting group change (e.g. Command Centre, RLS, Column Access, etc.)

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Attachment Shortcuts Create a record in another module linked to current record Selected or all objects added to created record Used for:  Events -> Conservation, Events -> Loans  Loans -> Conservation, Loans -> Movements  Movements -> Conservation

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Edit Multimedia Media Start up registered editor on temporary copy of media file Asked whether to re-import if media altered All resolutions regenerated Upgrade Metadata Standards Provide support for IPTC version 1.1 (July 2009) Provide support for XMP December 2008 review

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Read-Only Client Support Registry entry to provide per module or system wide setting for:  Read/write access  Read-only system (Registry, audit still write-able)  Complete read-only system Update Windows Client Icons Replace existing client icons with a new set providing consistent colours and images Update client to provide XP / Vista / Windows7 type themes

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Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Modify Image Metadata Allow EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata to be updated in master image Provide a global replace facility to update the same field over many records (e.g. update Copyright field on a set of records) Allow metadata to be propagated to image resolutions Allow resolution metadata to be modified independently of master image

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Drag/Drop Media Via Drop Zone Provide a drop zone on desktop for adding media to Multimedia Repository Allow right-click context menu option to add media Media ingestion to be handled by IMu Multimedia server Addition of multiple media files per operation

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 Drag/Drop Multiple Documents Extend client to allow multiple media files to be dropped into Multimedia Repository for ingestion Allow multiple thumbnails to be selected and dragged to other media components

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 IMu Mapper Support Add extension to IMu application server to provide spatial data Update client libraries with spatial API Integrate mapping functionality into IMu web client Allow results from web client search to be mapped

Collections Management Museums EMu 4.0 And Beyond Develop support for multiple search “tabs” in IMu web client Extend IMu Mapper to allow multiple search results to be mapped simultaneously Complete conversion of client controls to be Unicode aware Complete support for Unicode in server