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KE EMuParticipate In The Global Museum Community
Simply connect your EMu collection to one of the many museum industry portals, or even create your own portal together with other museums who share a common interest, whether that be regional or type of collection or common funding or any other reason. There have been several initiatives in the museum industry to provide a single gateway to the collections of multiple museums. Some were based on harvesting your collection (taking a copy of your data) but no sooner were they launched, than they were out of date. The best initiatives have built portals based on direct access to collections. But of course, this requires an enabling collections management system. Which is where EMu comes in. EMu contains many features that enable you to publish some or all of your collection via one or more portals. Publishing natural history collections can be achieved using EMu’s built-in DiGIR-compliant interface, which allows you to connect your collection to museum portals such as GBIF, OBIS, MaNIS, ORNIS and HerpNet. EMu can act as a data source to more than one portal simultaneously and you can choose which records will be made available to which portals. For example, you might provide your mammalogy collection to MaNIS and your marine collections to OBIS, all of your biological collections to GBIF, while at the same time providing all but your secret and sacred records to a regional portal.
The KE PortalThere is even a KE Portal, a web server application that enables web users to search the collections of multiple EMu and non-EMu sites simultaneously. The KE portal makes it possible for you to present a single online resource from multiple underlying data sources without creating new web content databases or copying data between those sources. This might be used for: A museum that wants to provide a single search interface across its multiple collection management systems, e.g. museum, archive and library. Separate institutions that want to collaborate for web resource publishing. The KE portal searches the data sources of participating sites and presents a merged list of results to web users. Users can then click through to the detailed record for the matching resource. All searches are performed on the servers at the participating institutions. The KE portal uses web services architecture with XML as its native data interchange format. Each EMu data source has built-in support for the portal, whereas non-EMu data sources require some additional software and configuration to interface with the portal. As it is highly configurable, the KE portal can communicate with virtually any underlying database management system. The look and feel can be configured using Cascading Stylesheets (CSS), Extensible Stylesheets Translation (XSLT) and standard HTML templates.
EMu Global PortalUsing our own KE portal technology, we’ve built a portal that can search all of the EMu collections from around the world. As an EMu user, you are invited to add your collection to this rapidly growing portal which includes many of the world’s largest and most significant collections. Read on for details about how EMu can assist you to:
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Your collection is world class and
your web site is engaging. But how do you ensure that your site is found amongst
the plethora of museum sites around the world?
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