1. Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies Turning information into knowledge

2. Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 KE EMu Object Locator  Plot internal locations of objects on building floor plans  Zoom & pan functionality  3-dimensional view capabilities  Drill down into plotted points

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4. Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 Some Uses for KE EMu Object Locator  Finding objects in the museum  Relocating objects  Disaster recovery planning  Self-guided tours

5. Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 KE EMu Web Maps  Plot specimen collection locality information on world maps  Use ESRI shape files (.shp)  Use images (.png)  Zoom and pan functionality  Drill down into plotted points  Hooks into Google Maps

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7. Collections Management KE EMu Spatial Technologies 2 September 2005 Some Uses for KE EMu Web Maps  Species distribution  Comparisons of distributions of species  Geocode verification  Collection ‘gap’ analysis

8. KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu Web Portal  Web-based search facility for multiple EMu sites  Distributes search to each EMu site concurrently  Supports specimen level retrieval  Supports aggregated analysis (KE EMu Web Maps)

9. KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management 2 September 2005 KE EMu Web Portal Prototype Sites participating in prototype include:  National Museum of Natural History, Washington  Natural History Museum, London  American Museum of Natural History, New York  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago  New York Botanical Garden  Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

10. KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management

11. KE EMu Spatial Technologies Collections Management 2 September 2005 Some Uses for KE EMu Portal  Collaborative research  Remote access to collection information  “Global” views of species  Identification of species  Repatriation of specimen data  Resource discovery