KE Software presentation at: Icelandic Institute of Natural History 9 September 2005.

KE Software presentation at:Icelandic Institute of Natural History

9 September 2005

2 September 20059 September 2005

KE EMu Presentation to IINH

KE EMu

A superior collections management system for the world’s largest

• Museums

• Art Galleries

• Herbaria

• Botanic Gardens

• Historical Societies

• Special Collections



KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections Outgoing Loan

Incoming Shipment

Loan Return

Outgoing Loan

Incoming Shipment

Loan Return

Exhibitions

InternalMovements

Insurance

Conservation

Outgoing Shipment

Incoming Shipment

Outgoing Loan

Loan Return



KE EMu helps you• Manage your collections

• Document your objects

Harvesting

Back Capture

Observations

RawCatalogue

Data

Collecting





• Enrich your information

with multimedia Collecting

RawCatalogue

Data

Tiger skeletons are common throughout India and the Asian continent. The tiger's skull is fore-shortened for crushing leverage of

Tiger SkullsBy P.J. Wordsmith






with multimedia

• Manage associated info.

Collecting

RawCatalogue

Data

Attributed Data

NarrativesRaw

Catalogue Data

Attributed Data

NarrativesRaw

Catalogue Data






with multimedia


• Publish your knowledge






with multimedia


• Publish your knowledge

• Participate in the global museum

community

Museum Web Portal

KE EMu site 1…

Non-KE EMu siteKE EMu site 2



Manage your collections

Central Catalogue

LocationsInternal

Movements

Events

Loans

External Movements

Conservation/ Condition Check

Insurance/ Indemnity

Deaccessioning

Accession Lots



“It has empowered our curators to enhance the Fish Collection in ways not possible before”

Dr. Darrell J. Siebert – Fish GroupThe Natural History Museum, UK



Document your objects

Central Catalogue

LocationsInternal

Movements

Events

Loans

External Movements

Conservation/ Condition Check

Insurance/ Indemnity

Deaccessioning

Accession LotsCatalogue Module

Rights/Copyright

Citations & Bibliography

Parties

Collection Events

Sites

Gazetteer



Document your objectsObject

Information

Natural HistoryCultural History

Paleontology Botany Entomology Invertebrate Zoology

Vertebrate Zoology

Earth Sciences

Herpetology Ichthyology Mammalogy Ornithology



“Data entry staff were inputting new records into EMu faster than the old system within three weeks of going live'”

Larry Gall – Head, Computer Systems OfficePeobody Museum of Natural History – Yale University, USA



Enrich your information with multimedia



Manage associated information

- Taxonomy• Complete taxonomic hierarchy

• Comprehensive support for synonymy

• Extensive attributes describing each taxon

• Automatic generation of scientific name,

encompassing distinctions

between zoological and botanic taxa

• Cross references type specimens

• Can be published on the Internet directly

Catalogue Module

Citations & Bibliography

Parties

Taxonomy



Manage associated information

- Narratives• Supports the creation and publication of interpretative information

stories, research papers, interactive exhibits, etc

• Ties together objects, spatial and temporal data with people, events

and multimedia

• Accessible over the Web

• Designed to capture the knowledge

of the experts within the institution



“Community-based Narratives has reconnected the Museum and its collections to source communities and users around the world”

Malcolm Chapman – Collection ManagerManchester Museum, UK



Publish your knowledge• Standard Internet and Intranet

interfaces to published Narratives,

Catalogue, Taxonomy and other

related information

• Implemented using commonly

used web technologies

• Completely configurable on-site

• Many tools for the development of

project-specific Web interfaces



Publish your knowledge



Participate in the global museum community• A single gateway to a range of KE EMu and non-KE EMu data sources

• Dynamic and concurrent searching of live data sets

• The KE EMu Web Portal accumulates the results from each data

source and dynamically produces a summary of all matching resources

• KE EMu is a GBIF DiGIR provider

• Standard Darwin Core fields incorporated in all Natural History

catalogues for ease of data sharing

• Flexible XML reporting functionality



On-line Zoological Catalogues of Australian

Museums - OZCAM• 22 Data sources that can be selected

• Users can request results to be returned as mapped points or as data

• The KE EMu Web Portal accumulates the results from all the sources

• Common name and scientific name

searching

• Map overlays, zooming, panning, etc

• Data exported in a variety of

formats including DiGIR



KE EMu new and ongoing developments• KE EMu Stand Alone

• PDA interfaces and applications

• Object Locator mapping

• RFID, infrared & wireless technologies

• Web applications

• Mapping technologies

• Workflow management

• Continuous enhancement program



“KE Software’s commitment to the continual improvement of their product is one of their most endearing qualities!”

Barbara M. Thiers, Ph.D. – Director of Herbarium The New York Botanical Garden, USA



Some of KE’s Natural History Community• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

• American Museum of Natural History, New York

• Natural History Museum, London

• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

• New York Botanical Gardens

• Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale USA

• Manchester Museum, UK

• Australian Museum

• Museum Victoria, Melbourne

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

• South Australian Museum

• OZCAM, Australia



Worldwide KE EMu User Community• Australasia

Successful meetings in Sydney (2002), Melbourne (2003)

& Sydney (2004)

• United Kingdom

Annual user group meeting hosted in Manchester or London

• North American

First official meeting to be held in Chicago, October 2005

• The “Big Five”

NMNH, AMNH, NHM, NYBG, Field

Held first meeting in May 2004, next meeting October 2005



“KE Software have proven excellent to deal with. We have found them reliable and straight forward in their approach to our requirements”

Lynne McNairn – User Systems AdministratorPowerhouse Museum, Australia

KE Software presentation at: Icelandic Institute of Natural History 9 September 2005.

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