KE EMu

Overview

KE Software's Electronic Museum management system, EMu, is a collections management system for all museums, from the small to the very large. Engineered to manage all types of collections, EMu is suited to:

• Cultural collections, Anthropology, Archae­ology, Science and Technology.
• Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture and 3-dimensional objects, Decorative Art, Performing Art, Photography, Textiles and Digital Objects.
• Natural History collections, including Zoology, Earth Sciences, Palaeobiology, Botany, Horticulture and Physical Anthropology.
• Special collections, Digital Assets, Historical Societies and Archives.

Manage Your Collections

Collection management processes handled by EMu include accessioning and deaccessioning, condition checking and conservation, incoming and outgoing loans, external movements (shipments), events (exhibitions), location tracking and internal movements, valuations, insurance and indemnity. To assist museums to maintain strong collection management policies the implementation of these processes in EMu is compliant with the popular MDA SPECTRUM II standard for museum documentation.

Document Your Objects

EMu has been designed to manage multiple disciplines within the one collection and can readily support the broad range of disciplines - from art to zoology – that is characteristic of many museums.

The user interface - the fields that display - is tailored to the particular requirements of a discipline so that users working in one area will have a different interface to those working in another. With all data collected in the one Catalogue however, the entire collection is easily searchable.

A key feature of EMu is the ease with which it can be tailored to the specific and perhaps unique requirements of any collection.

Documenting and managing a collection can involve a vast amount of information about objects, people and organisations, events, administration and much more. In EMu you store this diverse but related information in a range of modules, each specific to the type of information to be recorded, and each one configurable to your institution’s requirements.

Enrich Your Information With Multimedia

EMu’s multimedia repository, which complies with the Dublin Core Metadata Standard (Version 1.2), is integrated with every module so that any record, whether it is for an object in the Catalogue, a person in the Parties module, an event, a loan, and so on, can incorporate multimedia resources.

EMu also supports the management of museum digital assets, their various derivatives and use. 

Derive New Knowledge

With EMu’s Narratives module users can author descriptive material about objects in their collection, drawing together diverse elements: objects, sites, people, multimedia resources, events, etc. Narratives can be developed for specific audiences (primary school children, researchers, the general public, for instance) and for a range of purposes, such as exhibition overviews, wall labels, brochures, and Web-based stories.

The scientist user of EMu will discover a range of helpful facilities. Chief amongst these is the Taxonomy module which records detailed information about taxa. Supporting the complex rules of the synonymy of taxa, the Taxonomy module enables a search for a taxonomic concept under any of its names.

The Collection Events and Sites module records information about specific collection localities (field trips and archaeological digs) and is supported by a Gazetteer which provides a reference to look up place names. With support for synonymy of place names, the Gazetteer facilitates a search for objects from a specific locale regardless of a name change since the time of collection.

Publish Your Knowledge   

With Internet and Intranet capabilities built-in to EMu, it is a simple matter to provide online access to those records you choose to publish. EMu’s web interfaces are delivered via a suite of PHP objects that can be configured on-site to be consistent with your preferred online presence. 

You might choose to provide Intranet access to a live EMu data set or opt to export selected records to a web server that sits outside a firewall. How you wish to make your collection available online is up to you; EMu provides the flexibility and security to meet your needs.

EMu also provides a web interface for access to published records via a browser-capable wireless-networked remote device such as a PDA.

Participate In The Global Museum Community

EMu connects to most mainstream industry portals and it is a simple matter for you and your collection to participate in many multi-institution projects.

You can even join KE’s own portal with its gateway to the hundreds of millions of specimens, artifacts and works of art around the world that are managed by EMu.

Connect To The World

When managed by EMu your collection is not an island of information unto itself. With rich XML-based import and export capabilities, EMu provides for the interchange of information with any contemporary system.

It is also possible to associate web resources directly with records in your system.

User Interface

As well as its fully integrated web browser support, EMu provides a rich and intuitive Windows-based graphical user interface (GUI) for data query, capture, update and management processes. The GUI is typically deployed on a local area network within a Museum, where key employees and power users require the maximum functionality.

Customising EMu

Almost every aspect of EMu can be quickly and inexpensively customised to meet local requirements.

Other Features

EMu has many more features, including:

• Support for standards
• Simple reporting
• Object Locator
• Mapping specimens on world maps
• Wireless input
• Support for massive collections
• Security
• Audit trails
• Reliability

And It Works

Just ask our clients!
We are proud of our client list, which includes the largest and most prestigious museums in the world. We provide the highest quality support from highly trained IT and museum specialists. We feed our own experiences and the knowledge of our clients back into the product and continually improve it to the benefit of all of our users.

 And there is much, much more.

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More Information

To contact us for more information about KE EMu, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Telephone contact details can be found on the Contact page. 

Instructions for downloading the EMu Help (which includes screen shots and demonstrations, and comprehensive details about EMu functionality) can be found under More Information.