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Collections Management
2 September 2005
EMu International Roundup!
Yo! Listen up
Emu Users!
Alan Brooks
KE Software
Collections Management
2 September 2005
Case Study: Manchester City Council
• Collection of over 80,000 photographs from
the Manchester area
• Photographs were rapidly deteriorating
through excessive handling
• All photographs are now digitised
• KE developing e-commerce plug-in
Collections Management
2 September 2005
Case Study: Manchester City Council
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Case Study: Manchester City Council
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2 September 2005
Case Study: New Perspectives, NHMProcess
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Case Study: New Perspectives, NHM
• Oral history project with Kingston Uni.
• 3 year project
• 100 NHM current & past staff members
• Social science & social history
• Extend EMu’s narratives
Scientific content, ‘who’, ‘when’ & ‘where
New hierarchy structure – multiple tree
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Case Study: Manchester Museum
• Flikr, Facebook, etc
• Extend use of Blogs
• Tag all video content
• Special exhibitions &
public programmes
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Case Study: Te Papa, New Zealand
• Mini sites can be created for new themes
and projects
• Full Hierarchy of Narratives
• Audio, video, images and text
• Podcasts
• Content publicised on blogs
• Well documented repository
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Case Study: Te Papa, New Zealand
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Case Study: Te Papa, New Zealand
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Case Study: NMAI, EMu web admin tools
• Verify status of database
& critical info.
• Review EMu security settings
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Case Study: NMAI, EMu web admin tools
• Status page
• Audit page
• User/Group Report page
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• NSW Department of Lands
• Royal Agricultural Society, Sydney
• Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo
• Boston Museum of Science
• Moreton Bay Regional Council, QLD
• Queensland University of Technology
• DPIQ Queensland Entomology
• RMIT Design Archives
• Redland Art Gallery
• Heritage Victoria
• Mint Museum, North Carolina
• Baillieu Library, Melbourne University
Some recent new EMu clients
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Other projects
• Blackpool Illuminations
• National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
• Scandinavia
• Qatar
• NHM – various projects
• Rochdale - iMu