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

2. Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu helps you Manage your collections Outgoing Loan Incoming Shipment Loan Return Outgoing Loan Incoming Shipment Loan Return Exhibitions Internal Movements Insurance Conservation Outgoing Shipment Incoming Shipment Outgoing Loan Loan Return

3. Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu helps you Manage your collections Document your objects Harvesting Back Capture Observations Raw Catalogue Data Collecting

4. Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu helps you Manage your collections Document your objects Enrich your information with multimedia Collecting Raw Catalogue Data

5. Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu helps you Manage your collections Document your objects Enrich your information with multimedia Manage associated information Attributed Data Narratives Raw Catalogue Data

6. Collections Management KE EMu helps you Manage your collections Document your objects Enrich your information with multimedia Manage associated information Publish your knowledge

7. 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 KE EMu site 1 … Non-KE EMu siteKE EMu site 2

8. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Manage your collections Central Catalogue Locations Internal Movements Events Loans External Movements Conservation/ Condition Check Insurance/ Indemnity Deaccessioning Accession Lots

9. 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 Group The Natural History Museum, UK

10. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Document your objects Central Catalogue Locations Internal Movements Events Loans External Movements Conservation/ Condition Check Insurance/ Indemnity Deaccessioning Accession Lots Catalogue Module Rights/Copyright Citations & Bibliography Parties Collection Events SitesGazetteer

11. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Document your objects Object Information Natural HistoryCultural History Anthropology Art Social History Works on Paper Prints Sculptures

12. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Document your objects Object Information Natural HistoryCultural History Paleontology BotanyEntomology Invertebrate Zoology Vertebrate Zoology Earth Sciences HerpetologyIchthyologyMammalogyOrnithology

13. 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 Office Peabody Museum of Natural History – Yale University, USA

14. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Enrich your information with multimedia

15. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Manage associated information - Taxonomy Complete taxonomic hierarchy Comprehensive support for synonymy Extensive attributes describing each taxon Automatic generation of scientific name, encompassing distinctions between zoological and botanic taxa Cross references type specimens Can be published on the Internet directly Catalogue Module Citations & Bibliography Parties Taxonomy

16. 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

17. 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 Management Manchester Museum, UK

18. 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

19. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Publish your knowledge

20. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Publish your knowledge

21. Collections Management 2 September 2005 Publish your knowledge

22. 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

23. Collections Management 2 September 2005 On-line Zoological Catalogues of Australian Museums - OZCAM 22 Data sources that can be selected Users can request results to be returned as mapped points or as data The KE EMu Web Portal accumulates the results from all the sources Common name and scientific name searching Map overlays, zooming, panning, etc Data exported in a variety of formats including DiGIR

24. Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu new and ongoing developments KE EMu Standalone PDA interfaces and applications Object Locator mapping RFID, infrared & wireless technologies Web applications Mapping technologies Workflow management Continuous enhancement program

25. 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

26. 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

27. Collections Management Some Australian KE EMu Clients Museum Victoria Australian Museum National Gallery of Australia National Museum of Australia Powerhouse Museum Royal Botanic Gardens Art Gallery of South Australia South Australian Museum Queensland Art Gallery National Portrait Gallery Performing Arts Museum

28. 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

29. 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 Administrator Powerhouse Museum, Australia