KE EMu User Group Meetings

3rd North American User Group Meeting, New York, 16-17 October 2007

The 3rd North American EMu User Group Meeting was held at the New York Botanical Garden on 16-17 October. Between breaks this year’s 70 attendees were treated to a wide range of presentation topics, including: designing Crystal Reports; using EMu data for web content; the new EMu Conservation module; EMu dieting; using the EMu Thesaurus module as a culture authority; integrating EMu and DAMs; and future EMu developments.

Afternoons at the Gardens gave attendees the opportunity to take part in open discussion groups covering topics such as: the EMu Security model; User Generated Content; Project Management in EMu; EMu’s Bibliography module; the EMu Import tool; and various EMu Web implementations.

Day 1 concluded with a reception held at the Visitor’s Centre Café where guests were treated to fine food, drinks and conversation. Day 2 ended with the announcement that next year’s EMu Users Meeting will be held in Las Vegas and hosted by the Las Vegas Springs Preserve.

Special thanks to those who helped organise this year’s event, in particular Barbara Thiers, Lisa Fruscella, Sylvia Nikolova and Lisa Lee. Thanks to Ellen Bloch, Nicole Tarnowsky, Barbara Thiers and Nestor Perez-Moliere for their interesting tours of the beautiful gardens and collection areas.

As well as presentations, a series of Discussion Groups were held at this User Group Meeting.

Tuesday 16 October

Presenter	Presentation
Melissa Tulig Bioinformatics Manager New York Botanical Garden	The Lecythidaceae Pages: An EMu-based electronic monograph
John Doolan Chief Executive Officer KE Software	Preparing yourself for a visit to the museum: Part 1 & Part 2
Ann McMullen Curator Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian	Order from Chaos: Development and Implementation of NMAI's Culture Thesaurus
Rebecca Snyder Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History	EMu’s Multimedia module and the Museum’s long term plans with integration
Bernard Marshall Chief Technology Officer KE Software	EMu New Features

Wednesday 17 October

Presenter	Presentation
Larry Gall Head of the Computer Systems & Curatorial Affiliate in Entomology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History	EMu on a diet, redux
Beth Gamble Senior Systems Analyst Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History	Unleashing the Dark Crystal – Crystal Reports
Ducphong Nguyen Project Manager, Collections Information Systems Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian J.P. Brown Assistant Conservator Field Museum of Natural History J.S. Johnson Senior Objects Conservator Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian	A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You: Building an acceptable Conservation module
Nathalie Guénette Collections Information Liaison Canadian Museum of Civilization	Bilingual usage of the Thesaurus module

Discussion Groups

Discussion Leader

Discussion

Janeen Jones
Collection Database Architect

Field Museum of Natural History

Possible updates to the Bibliography module
A discussion of proposed additions of tabs and functional changes to the Bibliography module to better serve collections with respect to on-going research and publications.

Discussion topics include additions to Journal, Article and Manuscript tabs as well as a discussion of the Citation tab. This discussion will be of interest to anyone who wants to fully use bibliographic information to support data.

Ian Turnbull
Chief Operating Officer

KE Software

EMu web implementations
Discussion of issues for consideration when planning an EMu web strategy. Overview of web technologies and tools available with EMu. Exploration of some current customers with web interfaces to EMu. This discussion group will be useful for anybody who wants to learn more about using EMu and the web.

Sylvia Nikolova
Developer

KE Software

Using the Import tool to insert/change data in EMu

A look at the Import tool and how it is used to import data and change existing records in EMu. We will go through basic Import tool examples and investigate some common questions / problems that arise when using the tool.

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