1. Collections Management Museums EMu – Upcoming Developments Upcoming Developments Bernard Marshall Chief Technology Officer KE Software

2. Collections Management Museums EMu – Upcoming Developments Replace image libraries with ImageMagick for image processing. Support for about 90 image formats, including: Support for 8 bits and 16 bits per pixel images. Superior resizing libraries. Image Library Replacement3.2.03 GIF JPEG JPEG 2000 PNG PhotoCD TIFF CMYK BMP TGA

3. Collections Management Museums EMu – Upcoming Developments Image Metadata Support3.2.03 Add support for the following image metadata formats: IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) Add new Metadata tab to Multimedia Repository for extracted information. Use metadata to update Multimedia Repository characteristics and resolution information.

4. Collections Management Museums EMu – Upcoming Developments Other Enhancements3.2.03 Condition check update tool. Update image attachment dialogue box. Ability to change language order on the fly. Updated Conservation module (will depend on feedback).

5. Collections Management Museums EMu – Upcoming Developments EMu 3.3 Enhancements Unicode support: UTF 8 for server-side data UTF 16 for client-side display Extended field support. Update database schema to full 64 bit support. JDBC driver to provide live access to EMu tables. No longer supported: Windows 95/98/Me Crystal 8.0 Viewer

6. Collections Management Museums EMu – Upcoming Developments Future Enhancements Upgrade look and feel to Windows Vista (when released). Investigate other interface paradigms. Ability for a user to change groups on the fly. Allow data updates via Shortcut facility. Implementation of emerging standards (ABCD, Z39.87, etc.). Extra Web Services interfaces (OAI, etc.). Enhance query optimiser to provide faster cross-module searching.