Or how to make 11=1 Dr Penny Berents Australian Museum EMu Project Background databasing of collections began in early 1980s with vertebrate collections TITAN first databases were identical but as the years went by Collection Managers modified their database(s) in 2000 the AM had 11 collection databases in Texpress on 4 servers AM collection databases Birds Fishes Herpetology Mammals Marine Invertebrates Tissue Insects Minerals Molluscs Palaeontology Spiders Step one Choice of software KE EMu or something else? how much could we combine with AM Anthropology EMu database ? whose version of EMu ? American versions AMNH, NMNH ? Australian natural history users ? AM Anthropology ? our limited knowledge of product architecture and functionality before commencing customisation data free software . We analysed all collections for individual needs before customising Catalogue and before migrating any data which modules? Catalogue, Taxonomy, Sites, Collecting Events, Parties, Loans, Movements, Bibliography, Multimedia, Locations Latitude and Longitude Registration numbers and IRNs . Salinity data not displayed with float data . EMu logins Registry settings . EMu logins Registry settings standard environments for EMu . EMu logins Registry settings standard environments for EMu mapping fields from Texpress to EMu . EMu logins Registry settings standard environments for EMu mapping fields from Texpress to EMu data mapping benchmarks establishing load benchmarks for testing each collection after the load range queries establishing load benchmarks for testing each collection after the load range queries SQS (simple query screen) establishing load benchmarks for testing each collection after the load range queries SQS (simple query screen) keeping track of different datasets at varying stages of implementation . storage locations . issue registration histories taxon/ type of histories taxon/ type of Help/Manuals/Training 4 datasets loaded and operational Marine Invertebrates, Herpetology, Birds & Spiders Mammals loaded to test database Mapping underway for next datasets due to finish migrating all datasets by end 2004 Where are we up to?