Marcel Parent
Education Manager
Las Vegas Springs Reserve

Creating a Culture of Sustainability at the Springs Preserve

Marcel gave an introduction of the Las Vegas Springs Preserve and discussed various ways in which organizations can become more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Kara M. Lewis
Collections Information Program Manager
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Instituton

Carrie Beaucamp
Information Management Specialist
Anthropology, National Museum of Natual History, Smithsonian Institution

Patricia L. Nietfeld (in absentia)
Collections Manager
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

Sites and Parties Cleanup: The Clone Wars

Carrie and Kara presented strategies they had implemented to eliminate duplicate, incomplete and inaccurate records.  The presentations included information on how they determined standards that records needed to adhere to in order to be considered correct as well as methods they used for analyzing the data that was to be cleaned. 

Dave Smith
Petrology Manager
Natural History Museum

Can EMu be used for insect pest monitoring?

Presentation Notes

Flash Presentation

Dave described how EMu can effectively be used for pest management by utilizing the Object Locator, including an idea for a new report type that uses the Object Locator to display information with respect to time. 

Bernard Marshall
Chief Techonology Officer
KE Software (Melbourne)

EMu New Developments - Part 1

Bern gave an overview and demonstration of the new features available in EMu 3.2.05, such as the audit roll back, improved drag and drop options, improved Groups module; new statistics module, etc.

Bernard Marshall
Chief Technology Officer
KE Software (Melbourne)

EMu New Developments - Part 2

Bern gave an overview and demonstration of the new features available in EMu 3.2.05, such as the audit roll back, improved drag and drop options, improved Groups module; new statistics module, etc. 

Larry Gall
Head of Computer Systems & Curatorial Affiliate in Entomology
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Coding at the Bar

Larry described how he used EMu to facilitate movement of some of the museum's collections from one building to another by using a custom bar coding script in conjunction with EMu.

Ann McMullen
Curator
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

DucPhong Nguyen
Collections Information System Manager
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

A Silk Purse from a Sow's Ear: Bringing NMAI Collections Information to the Web

Anne and Ducky gave an informative presentation on the challenge of getting the NMAI collection web accessable, which included how they verified data and utilized EMu to easily identify the condition records were in.

Beth Gamble
Senior Systems Analyst
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Multiple Label Reports via Texxmlreplicate

Beth went into detail on how to create label reports using the texxmlreplicate utility.

Paul Cretes
Manager, Artifact Documentation & CCO Projects; Library, Archives and Documentation
Canadian Museum of Civilisation

What does finished look like?: How to define cataloguing so that KE can be used to evaluate how well your collection is documented.

Paul described how the CMCC used EMu to answer the questions of who, what, where, when and how as it relates directly to the artifact and how to measure completeness progress.

Chris Fincham
Head of North American Operations
KE Software (Vancouver)

The EMu client via the Web

Explore options for making the EMu client available via a web browser using Citrix and other similar software packages.  This can allow users to use the full EMu client while on the road or at home.

Julia Hofer
Assistant Registrar
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

Using KE EMu's Power for Data Cleanup

When data from an institution’s previous database is converted and uploaded into KE EMu, inevitably there are areas of muddy data that come to light.  The challenge is to identify the rogue records, determine the record or records to be retained, and eliminate the extraneous records.  Possible areas for discussion include:

• What modules, tabs, and look-up lists are most likely to contain “muddy” data
• What methods are most effective to identify rogue records
• How to identify the best record
• What methods are most effective to eliminate the rogue records
• How to keep the data “clean” once a record or group of records have been laundered
• Related areas of interest to participants

Brad Lickman
Account Manager
KE Software (Toronto)

Cultural History Special Interest Group  

This discussion will focus on potential areas of common interest among cultural institutions, with the focus on the formation of a Cultural History Special Interest Group.  The CHSIG would be functionally similar to the Natural History Special Interest Group, where meetings would take place once per year on the day before the official start of the EMu User Group Conference. Topics of discussion will include:

• Repatriation:   Can it exist as a standard module in EMu?  Can any of the existing modules (Events, Use Requests) be adapted to suit this process?
• Collection Events/Sites module(s):  Too heavily focused on natural history collections?
• Narratives:  Other uses in EMu besides a repository for publishing web data (research tool)?
• Tools for the handling of sensitive collections; are they adequate?
• Extensions to Parties to address indigenous requirements/cultural issues.
• Sharing data - what information could be shared?  Thesauri?  Parties?Cultural portal?

Tracy Omar
Research
Las Vegas Springs Preserve

EMu as a Tool for Managing Archaeological Data

How can we use EMu not only as a storage medium for archaeological data but also as a tool for analysis of that data.  How can we organize provenience data and descriptive data in ways that will enhance retrieval and analysis? The Springs Preserve team will come armed with some answers and lots of questions.  We hope for an active exchange of ideas.

Jay Kohut
Developer
KE Software (Vancouver)

EMu Help Facilities

This discussion group will cover the help facilities available in EMu. This includes the Field Help Module and the compiled HTML EMu Help tool.

Tom Hollowell
Informatics Branch
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

How are we getting EMu onto the Web?

Forum to share ideas on what is being done by users to disseminate the community's variety of collections data using KE web publishing tools or other approaches. Experiences with applications of EMu web php as well as any solutions considered for unusual situations are welcomed for discussion.