2. Peabody Museum of Natural History
KE EMu at
the
Peabody Museum of Natural History

3. The four YPM buildings Peabody (YPM) Environmental Science Center
(ESC)
175 Whitney
(Anthropology)
Geology / Geophysics
(KGL)

4. Confluence of YPM, KGL, ESC

5. Peabody Collections Counts & Functional Cataloguing Unit
Anthropology ,000 Lot
Botany ,000 Individual
Entomology 1,000,000 Individual
Invertebrate Paleontology ,000 Lot
Invertebrate Zoology ,000 Lot
Mineralogy ,000 Individual
Paleobotany ,000 Individual
Scientific Instruments ,000 Individual
Vertebrate Paleontology ,000 Individual
Vertebrate Zoology ,000 Lot / Individual
2.7 million functional units => ~11 million items

6. Peabody Collections Functional Units Databased
Anthropology , %
Botany , %
Entomology 1,000, %
Invertebrate Paleontology , %
Invertebrate Zoology , %
Mineralogy , %
Paleobotany , %
Scientific Instruments , %
Vertebrate Paleontology , %
Vertebrate Zoology , %
930,000 of 2.7 million => 35 % overall

7. VZ Kristof Zyskowski (Vert. Zool. - ESC) Greg Watkins-Colwell

8. (Scientific Instruments – KGL )
HSI
Shae Trewin
(Scientific Instruments – KGL )

9. VP
Mary Ann Turner
(Vert. Paleo. – KGL / YPM)

10. (Anthro. - YPM / 175 Whitney)
Maureen DaRos
(Anthro. - YPM / 175 Whitney)

11. EMu Planning 2002 Collections Computerization Committee deliberations
2003 Q2 on-site demonstrations from CM vendors
2003 Q3+ talk with existing clients of CM vendors

12. EMu Planning Lots of other folks…
Collections Computerization Committee deliberations
2003 Q2 on-site demonstrations from CM vendors
2003 Q3+ talk with existing clients of CM vendors
Lots of other folks…

13. Classic Argus

14. Old to the New Argus Module EMu Module Object Conservation
Object Catalogue
Object Conservation
Object Internal Movements
Lexicon Taxonomy
Activity Accession Lots
Activity Loans
Site Collecting Events
Site Site
Constituent Parties
Publication Bibliography

15. Prior Argus Experience
Single CMS shared by all Departments
for about a decade - YPM staff cohabiting
internally and realizing commonalities
- streamlined system administration
- ease strain of future migration path

16. EMu Implementation 01/2004 Data mapping starts, contract refinement
02/ Major data parsing & cleaning starts in Argus
07/2004 Contracts signed, Vancouver starts
08/2004 Servers configured, YPM-test environment running
09/ Begin iterative screen design & tests with tiny datasets
10/2004 Draft YPM-live environment added to server
10/2004 One week of KE training for collections staff
11/2004 Staff working with draft YPM-live environment
02/2005 Larry to Vancouver to work with Negar
03/2005 YPM-live screen design & data mappings stabilizing
04/2005 Last uploads to Argus, prep for final data migration
05/2005 Final data migration, all curatorial disciplines
1.5 years total

17. EMu Implementation 01/2004 Data mapping starts, contract refinement
02/ Major data parsing & cleaning starts in Argus
07/2004 Contracts signed, Vancouver starts
08/2004 Servers configured, YPM-test environment running
09/ Begin iterative screen design & tests with tiny datasets
10/2004 Draft YPM-live environment added to server
10/2004 One week of KE training for collections staff
11/2004 Staff working with draft YPM-live environment
02/2005 Larry to Vancouver to work with Negar
03/2005 YPM-live screen design & data mappings stabilizing
04/2005 Last uploads to Argus, prep for final data migration
05/2005 Final data migration, all curatorial disciplines

18. Local Emu web site

19. 19 trainees
EMu training session

20. Even with best intentions the ‘EMu Big Picture’ can remain a bit fuzzy…

21. Ian Turnbull Negar Samenirad
Clarity…
Ian Turnbull
Negar Samenirad

22. EMu Implementation 01/2004 Data mapping starts, contract refinement
02/ Major data parsing & cleaning starts in Argus
07/2004 Contracts signed, Vancouver starts
08/2004 Servers configured, YPM-test environment running
09/ Begin iterative screen design & tests with tiny datasets
10/2004 Draft YPM-live environment added to server
10/2004 One week of KE training for collections staff
11/2004 Staff working with draft YPM-live environment
02/2005 Larry to Vancouver to work with Negar
03/2005 YPM-live screen design & data mappings stabilizing
04/2005 Last uploads to Argus, prep for final data migration
05/2005 Final data migration, all curatorial disciplines
06/ Safe to jump into the water…

23. EMu Users Group a.k.a. Weekly Therapy - started meetings at go-live - topic du jour as a kick off - then open season on issues - driven by users' experiences
Specimens

24. Some Miscellaneous Statistics
1,200,000 Argus records => 2,100,000 EMu records
3 days for Argus server to spit out the final migration files
12 days for EMu server to ingest the final migration files
held a final migration “race” between the KE & YPM servers
lost few weeks to Vancouver server hiccups, office move, etc.

25. Invertebrate Zoology Lourdes Rojas Eric Lazo-Wasem Dan Drew
operating in Emu - IZ
Chomping at the bit…
Invertebrate
Zoology
Lourdes Rojas
Eric Lazo-Wasem
Dan Drew

26. partitioning backlogged multi-species samples…
operating in Emu - IZ
partitioning backlogged
multi-species samples…

27. Site record for lot
operating in Emu - IZ

28. Site record for lot
RTF label
operating in Emu - IZ

29. operating in Emu - IZ Site record for lot RTF label
Datamax I-4406 (thermal)

30. operating in Emu - IZ Site record for lot RTF label
Datamax I-4406 (thermal)
…label(s) into jar

31. Excerpts from YPM Modules
Catalogue - adjustments for speed
Taxonomy - Lexicon tab

32. Catalogue ANT

33. Catalogue HSI

34. Catalogue IZ

35. DET – IZ4 Cloned the grid elements for: "Current" Identification
Yowza ! An identification updater is coming to EMu !
DET – IZ4
Cloned the grid elements for:
"Current" Identification
"Filed Asth" Identification
into additional, separate fields

36. Tax – higher

37. Tax - lex

38. Tax – lex expand1

39. Tax – lex expand2

40. Tax – lex expand2
- levels of children to display is regulated by a registry entry
- assigning the parent sets the full path back up the tree
- optional viewing mechanism grafted onto the base module
PRINCIPLE #1 = LEAVE EXTANT MODULE INTACT !

41. taxontree1

42. taxontree2

43. taxontree2 Other external resources? Drag and drop reparenting?
Alternate classifications?
Autopopulating Luts fields?

44. Backend Script Tinkering = Creative Destruction
JPEG 2000 and EMu - protem freeware fix
Admin Module - the proverbial black box

45. http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000 non-proprietary standard
mathematically lossless
lossy (much smaller files)
"perceptually" lossless
desktop sofwtare emerging

47. JP2 spicebush

48. JP2 spicebush with J2K

49. JP2 spicebush with J2K and tail target

50. JP2 spicebush tails with file sizes
1.54 mB kB

51. JP2 spicebush tails with moral
lossless JP2 => circa 30-40% original TIFF size
lossy JP2 => go to circa 1%-5%, depending on purpose

52. Reed Beaman1, Nico Cellinese1,
Bryan Heidorn2, Ashley Green1, Youjun Guo1,
Michael Donoghue1, Barbara Thiers3,
Heather Rolan3 & Melissa Tulig3
1Peabody Museum of Natural History,
Yale University
2Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1The New York Botanical Garden
Funded by the US National Science Foundation

53. Digital Darkroom TTI 30 x 40 inch vacuum easel copy stand
UV free, minimal IR lighting
Hardware colorimetric calibration
Apple G5 workstation
3.2 Tbytes RAID storage and tape library backup
Pipeline to image processing web services
Lynn Jones (Botany)

54. 261 kb
1,302 kb
5,166 kb
62,640 kb

55. JP2 - without
oops… no thumbnail

56. JP2 - coding find imagedir –name *.jp2 –mtime -2 –print
loop on the matches and test to see which recently
loaded JP2 files are missing a thumbnail JPG,
or which JP2 files have been modified more
recently than their existing thumbnail JPG ; then
build filenames for any qualifying target JPGs ;
execute script several times per hour from cron
jasper –f match –F tempfile
convert tempfile –resize 90x90 target

57. JP2 - without

58. JP2 - with

59. JP2 – size matters Ask your EMu server what it might prefer
a hefty TIFF… or a ballet of tiny JP2s ?

60. Scripting a data load

61. Save to simple text format
Scripting a data load
Save to simple text format

62. Save to simple text format
Scripting a data load
Save to simple text format
Script to convert
to Texpress input

63. Save to simple text format
Texpress 'fidsbrief'
Scripting a data load
Save to simple text format
Script to convert
for Texpress

64. Save to simple text format
Texpress 'fidsbrief'
Scripting a data load
Save to simple text format
Texpress grammar file
Script to convert
for Texpress

65. Save to simple text format
Texpress 'fidsbrief'
Scripting a data load
Save to simple text format
Texpress grammar file
Script to convert
for Texpress

66. Send output to location of your choice (e.g., Admin Results window)

67. texload -ch -ddatafile -ggrammarfile ecatalogue
Admin
Send output to location of your choice (e.g., Admin Results window)
texload -ch -ddatafile -ggrammarfile ecatalogue
texload -as -ddatafile -ggrammarfile ecatalogue

68. Local catalog service

69. Ornis

70. Paleoportal

71. Cope and labels
Cope MacClintock
(Inv. Paleo.)

72. another Happy Camper
Cope chopping

73. finis