North American EMu Users Meeting, 3-4 October 2005
KE Software is excited to announce the first North American EMu Users meeting. Hosted by The Field Museum in Chicago on 3-4 October 2005, the meeting will bring together more than 65 attendees from many diverse art museums, cultural history, natural history and science collections. Over 20 institutions in Canada, the United States, Britain and Australia will be represented.
This two day meeting includes presentations from a number of institutions, social events and KE Software panel discussions. If your institution is not being represented, please consider sending someone to this influential and informative meeting. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet with people from other institutions, to share your talents and learn from others, build relationships and find out about product development.
The deadline for registration is 14 September 2005. Registration details and a complete list of attendees can be found at EMuUsers.org.
Fourth Australasian Users Group Meeting, 16-17 November 2005
Building on last October's very successful meeting in Sydney, the fourth Australasian Users Group Meeting will be held in Melbourne, Australia, on 16-17 November. More details are available at EMuUsers.org.
New Jersey State Museum joins the KE EMu family
We are pleased to welcome our newest client, New Jersey State Museum, to the KE EMu family. From fossils to fine art, Native American tools to the finest silver, quilts to comets, prehistory to the future, the New Jersey State Museum is four museums in one — Archaeology/Ethnology, Cultural History, Fine Art, and Natural History.
The Archaeology/Ethnology collection alone includes over two million prehistoric and historic specimens from nearly 100 years of excavation, as well as more than 2,000 ethnographic objects. The Cultural History collection documents the existence of New Jersey's inhabitants from the 17th century to the present, and the Fine Art collection includes over 10,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and photographs with a New Jersey focus within the context of American art history. The Natural History collection is the oldest collection in the Museum and covers eleven subcategories of geological and zoological material and a collection of historically valuable glass lantern slides.
Tradeshow
KE Software will be attending the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Museum Computer Network in Boston on 2-5 November 2005. The theme of the conference is Digits Fugit! Preserving Knowledge into the Future. Information about the conference, including secure online registration, is available at www.mcn.edu.
EMuUsers.org update
The number of people registered with EMuUsers.org, the new online EMu users community, has grown to more than 120, with several users joining each week.
The site continues to evolve as Museum Victoria, which hosts and manages the site, adds new features. Recently added are:
- A searchable archive of all messages posted to the original EMu users list server between 2001 and mid 2005.
- A Papers and Proposals page. This currently includes a Media Asset discussion paper describing four media asset management models under consideration by KE Software.
EMuUsers.org has a range of user forums on topics such as EMu development, Using EMu, and EMu Administration, each broken into more discrete topics (EMu Administration includes sections on the Registry and Admin Tasks, for example).
Anyone who has content that might be of interest to others - conference and other papers written about EMu for instance - is encouraged to contribute it to the site.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
KE Software would like to welcome Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa to the KE EMu community.
Located in Wellington, New Zealand, the museum opened its doors in 1998 as an amalgam of the former National Museum and National Art Gallery. Te Papa’s collection includes both Cultural History and Natural History collections and comprises around two million objects.
Read more about Te Papa Tongarewa and the KE Software-Te Papa project here.
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