ke software presentation at: icelandic institute of natural history 9 september 2005
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KE Software presentation at:Icelandic Institute of Natural History
9 September 2005
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu
A superior collections management system for the world’s largest
• Museums
• Art Galleries
• Herbaria
• Botanic Gardens
• Historical Societies
• Special Collections
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections Outgoing Loan
Incoming Shipment
Loan Return
Outgoing Loan
Incoming Shipment
Loan Return
Exhibitions
InternalMovements
Insurance
Conservation
Outgoing Shipment
Incoming Shipment
Outgoing Loan
Loan Return
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
Harvesting
Back Capture
Observations
RawCatalogue
Data
Collecting
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia Collecting
RawCatalogue
Data
Tiger skeletons are common throughout India and the Asian continent. The tiger's skull is fore-shortened for crushing leverage of
Tiger SkullsBy P.J. Wordsmith
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia
• Manage associated info.
Collecting
RawCatalogue
Data
Attributed Data
NarrativesRaw
Catalogue Data
Attributed Data
NarrativesRaw
Catalogue Data
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia
• Manage associated info.
• Publish your knowledge
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections
• Document your objects
• Enrich your information
with multimedia
• Manage associated info.
• Publish your knowledge
• Participate in the global museum
community
Museum Web Portal
KE EMu site 1…
Non-KE EMu siteKE EMu site 2
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KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Manage your collections
Central Catalogue
LocationsInternal
Movements
Events
Loans
External Movements
Conservation/ Condition Check
Insurance/ Indemnity
Deaccessioning
Accession Lots
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
“It has empowered our curators to enhance the Fish Collection in ways not possible before”
Dr. Darrell J. Siebert – Fish GroupThe Natural History Museum, UK
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Document your objects
Central Catalogue
LocationsInternal
Movements
Events
Loans
External Movements
Conservation/ Condition Check
Insurance/ Indemnity
Deaccessioning
Accession LotsCatalogue Module
Rights/Copyright
Citations & Bibliography
Parties
Collection Events
Sites
Gazetteer
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KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Document your objectsObject
Information
Natural HistoryCultural History
Paleontology Botany Entomology Invertebrate Zoology
Vertebrate Zoology
Earth Sciences
Herpetology Ichthyology Mammalogy Ornithology
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
“Data entry staff were inputting new records into EMu faster than the old system within three weeks of going live'”
Larry Gall – Head, Computer Systems OfficePeobody Museum of Natural History – Yale University, USA
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Enrich your information with multimedia
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Manage associated information
- Taxonomy• Complete taxonomic hierarchy
• Comprehensive support for synonymy
• Extensive attributes describing each taxon
• Automatic generation of scientific name,
encompassing distinctions
between zoological and botanic taxa
• Cross references type specimens
• Can be published on the Internet directly
Catalogue Module
Citations & Bibliography
Parties
Taxonomy
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Manage associated information
- Narratives• Supports the creation and publication of interpretative information
stories, research papers, interactive exhibits, etc
• Ties together objects, spatial and temporal data with people, events
and multimedia
• Accessible over the Web
• Designed to capture the knowledge
of the experts within the institution
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
“Community-based Narratives has reconnected the Museum and its collections to source communities and users around the world”
Malcolm Chapman – Collection ManagerManchester Museum, UK
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Publish your knowledge• Standard Internet and Intranet
interfaces to published Narratives,
Catalogue, Taxonomy and other
related information
• Implemented using commonly
used web technologies
• Completely configurable on-site
• Many tools for the development of
project-specific Web interfaces
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Publish your knowledge
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Participate in the global museum community• A single gateway to a range of KE EMu and non-KE EMu data sources
• Dynamic and concurrent searching of live data sets
• The KE EMu Web Portal accumulates the results from each data
source and dynamically produces a summary of all matching resources
• KE EMu is a GBIF DiGIR provider
• Standard Darwin Core fields incorporated in all Natural History
catalogues for ease of data sharing
• Flexible XML reporting functionality
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
On-line Zoological Catalogues of Australian
Museums - OZCAM• 22 Data sources that can be selected
• Users can request results to be returned as mapped points or as data
• The KE EMu Web Portal accumulates the results from all the sources
• Common name and scientific name
searching
• Map overlays, zooming, panning, etc
• Data exported in a variety of
formats including DiGIR
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
KE EMu new and ongoing developments• KE EMu Stand Alone
• PDA interfaces and applications
• Object Locator mapping
• RFID, infrared & wireless technologies
• Web applications
• Mapping technologies
• Workflow management
• Continuous enhancement program
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
“KE Software’s commitment to the continual improvement of their product is one of their most endearing qualities!”
Barbara M. Thiers, Ph.D. – Director of Herbarium The New York Botanical Garden, USA
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Some of KE’s Natural History Community• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
• American Museum of Natural History, New York
• Natural History Museum, London
• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
• New York Botanical Gardens
• Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale USA
• Manchester Museum, UK
• Australian Museum
• Museum Victoria, Melbourne
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
• South Australian Museum
• OZCAM, Australia
2 September 20059 September 2005
KE EMu Presentation to IINH
Worldwide KE EMu User Community• Australasia
Successful meetings in Sydney (2002), Melbourne (2003)
& Sydney (2004)
• United Kingdom
Annual user group meeting hosted in Manchester or London
• North American
First official meeting to be held in Chicago, October 2005
• The “Big Five”
NMNH, AMNH, NHM, NYBG, Field
Held first meeting in May 2004, next meeting October 2005
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KE EMu Presentation to IINH
“KE Software have proven excellent to deal with. We have found them reliable and straight forward in their approach to our requirements”
Lynne McNairn – User Systems AdministratorPowerhouse Museum, Australia