What’s Happening?

EMu Activity In Europe, the Middle East and Australasia

Andrew Brown

KE Software

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2 September 2005

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2 September 2005

The Helsingborg Museums, Sweden

• New EMu customer

• Live since September 2010

• Multi-discipline

• Living collections

• Fine art

• Cultural history

• Translation into Swedish

• Encyclopaedia of Helsingborg

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Living Collections

• Live Animals, including:

• Cows

• Sheep

• Poultry

• Wild Flowers

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Web Publication of Helsingborgs Stadslexikon

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Helsingborgs Stadslexikon

• Encyclopedia consisting of information that Is

significant to the city of Helsingborg

• Each article within the book can consist of:

• Title

• Main Information

• Images

• References to other articles

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Helsingborgs Stadslexikon in EMu

• Each article stored as a Narrative

• Images attached to the article record

• References to other articles achieved using

“Associated Narratives”

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Helsingborgs Stadslexikon on the

Web

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Egypt

• Egyptian Museum (Cairo)• EMu user for 2 years

• Documenting user access to collections

• Applications

• Authorizations

• Material examined

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Egypt (cont.)

• National Museum of Egyptian Civilization

(Cairo)• Managed by UNESCO

• Project underway

• Full Arabic system

• Emphasis on Narrative content

• “Intangible Heritage”

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Egypt (cont.)

• Grand Egyptian Museum (Cairo)• Currently selecting a system

• EMu is front runner for this project

• Other Egyptian collections• Oriental Institute of University of Chicago

• University of Pennsylvania Museum of

Archaeology and Anthropology

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Digital Asset Management

• Tyne & Wear Museum (Newcastle UK)• Large local authority

• Multi-discipline catalogue

• St Andrews University Library (Scotland)• Picture Library

• Largest collection of Scottish photographic

history

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Other European Activity

• Direction des musées de France validation

• Fife Museum

• British School at Athens

• Wandsworth Museum

• KE UK employs on-site support staff for

Middle East

• KE UK turns 10!

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KE UK Turns 10

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

• A KE Software customer since 1986

• Using EMu since 1999

• Storing information about their Herbarium

and Botanical Living Collections

• Currently around 190,000 specimens recorded

in EMu

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Trees in the Garden Project

•New online mapping service using KE

EMu Mapper

•View detailed information and stories

about the living tree collections

•Uses high resolution aerial photos• http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/TreesRBG

Domain/

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Search for trees, map their locations

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Zoom in on areas of the Gardens

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Results including location

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Detailed Information

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Exhibition Items

•Te Papa, MV, CMCC

•Module sites between Exhibitions and

Catalogue

•Allows more information to be stored

about an object in a given exhibition

•Records whether object was accepted

or rejected for us in the exhibition

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Other Australian clients

• Redland Art Gallery, Qld

• Moreton Bay Museums, Qld