KE EMu User Group Meetings

4th European EMu User Group Meeting, London, 10-11 April 2006

The 4th European EMu User Group Meeting was held in the week prior to Easter at the Royal Academy of Music in London.  For a day and a half the 45 attendees were kept busy with a full program of presentations on a range of topics that included: data clean-up techniques in EMu; future Conservation module developments; delivering collection information through EMu Narratives; plotting object information using Google Maps; and future EMu developments.

Thanks must go to the people who helped organise the event, in particular Louise Andersson-Gylden, Marion Raiser, Keri Myers, Julian Tomlin and Samantha Pettit.

Thanks to Janet Snowman and Frances Palmer from the Royal Academy of Music for their interesting tours of the academy and the stories that surround the collections, building and past students – Elton John included.

The Natural History Museum also hosted the attendees on various tours through the Mineralogy Department, Palaeontology Conservation Unit (PCU) and the Darwin Centre “Tank Room”.

Monday 10 April

Presenter	Presentation
Keri Myers Project Manager Trade Unions Congress Library	Web specific EMu project: Home Front Recalled
David Smith Petrology Curator Team Leader, Mineralogy EMu Implementation Natural History Museum	A new EMu User's Perspective: Recrystallisation of Mineralogy Collections Databasing
Alex Fell Consultant KE Software	What is under the hood of EMu 3.1, 3.2 and the upcoming 3.3 releases
Robin Green Registrar Lancashire County Museum Service	A year (or so) after "go live" - where to now?
Vincent Kelly Manchester Art Gallery	A new website for Manchester Art Gallery: Integrating the EMu Collections Management System
Forbes Hawkins Collection Systems Developer Museum Victoria	MvWISE: Museum Victoria Wireless Input System for EMu
Pauline Webb Collections manager Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester	Future projects - delivering EMu data through 'higher end' interfaces
Nicola Walker Conservator Whitworth Art Gallery	EMu conservation in practice
Abby Stevens The Manchester Museum	Collective Conservations and the use of narratives at the Manchester Museum
Chris Collins Palaeontology Conservation Unit Natural History Museum	Prevention Conservation, Condition, Survey and Interventive Processes

Tuesday 11 April

Presenter	Presentation
Marion Raiser Programme Manager Natural History Museum	Project Management DIY
Julian Tomlin Head of Administration Whitworth Art Gallery	Building a Matrix: Exploiting Narratives
Joanna McCaffrey Janeen Jones Robert Lücking Christine Niezoda Mary Anne Rogers The Field Museum of Natural History	Data Scrubbing - preparation for EMu
Nick Poole Director, MDA	MDA initiatives and SPECTRUM
John Doolan Chief Executive Officer KE Software	KE EMu Spatial Technologies: Turning information into knowledge
Tim Furmston IT Officer Whitworth Art Gallery	EMu Site Integration Outline