1. EMu at Te Papa…… One Year on Philip Edgar Manager, Collections Information Department Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2. What is Te Papa …… Located in the capital, Wellington Combined former National Museum and National Art Gallery Art, Photography, History, Pacific Cultures, Taonga Maori, and Natural History collections 1.8 million items 640,000 collection object records in EMu

3. EMu Implementation Project Migration of one centralised CIS c. 600,000 object records c. 35,000 images

4. EMu Implementation Project Added Media Asset functionality Modified Catalogue and core modules merged Collection Events and Sites modules AAT, TGM 1, and TGN in Thesaurus

5. June 2005 All data migrated Launched to all collections staff 150 user accounts Delivered to Intranet straight out of box Go Live

6. Acquisition and Loans processes in EMu Use of Thesaurus and controlled vocabularies Imaging Team adding Media Assets Go Live

7. Go Live – The Cake

8. EMu Support work 05/06 Training and support Data cleansing and normalisation Reports

9. EMu Development work 05/06 Expanded Media Asset functionality Simplified process of creation Greater automated metadata capture Reduction in information duplication bulk loading media import tool Additional media security

10. EMu Development work 05/06 Thesaurus modifications Record Level Security implementation Online access to collections

11. Collections Online (1)

12. Collections Online (2)

13. Collections Online (3)

14. So, to sum up so far ….. All data migrated into Emu Users trained Two key processes managed in EMu – Acquisitions and Loans Media can be managed in EMu catalogue with appropriate metadata Security of media is managed through EMu Staff can upload media into EMu Bulk loading media import tool for backlog in place Record Level Security in place Appropriate thesauri and controlled vocabularies in place Basic online collections access available to public

15. This year …. Online collections access (1) Want to: Deliver greater amount of content Deliver narrative content Highlight relationships that exist between objects, people, places and events

16. This year …. Online collections access (2) Investigating: CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Topic Maps EMu Narratives Knowledge visiualisation web interfaces

17. This year …. Online collections access (3) Matapihi (http://www.matapihi.org.nz) Global Biodiversity Information Facility (http://www.gbif.org) NZ Virtual Herbarium

18. This year …. Exhibitions Process in EMu Object Lists Exhibition text Media management Management of exhibition objects

19. This year …. Matauranga Maori Thesaurus Preferred and equivalent terms for Maori taonga names Preferred and equivalent terms for indigenous materials and techniques

20. This year ….. Other Management of culturally sensitive objects Mangement of Rights information KE Mapper

21. Concluding comments Successful implementation Listened to users….but not too much Underestimated reports Underestimated support Development never stops….