Collections Management 2 September 2005 EMu International Roundup! Yo! Listen up Emu Users! Alan Brooks KE Software.

Collections Management

2 September 2005

EMu International Roundup!

Yo! Listen up

Emu Users!

Alan Brooks

KE Software

Collections Management

2 September 2005

Case Study: Manchester City Council

• Collection of over 80,000 photographs from

the Manchester area

• Photographs were rapidly deteriorating

through excessive handling

• All photographs are now digitised

• KE developing e-commerce plug-in

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Case Study: Manchester City Council

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Case Study: Manchester City Council

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Case Study: New Perspectives, NHMProcess

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Case Study: New Perspectives, NHM

• Oral history project with Kingston Uni.

• 3 year project

• 100 NHM current & past staff members

• Social science & social history

• Extend EMu’s narratives

Scientific content, ‘who’, ‘when’ & ‘where

New hierarchy structure – multiple tree

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Case Study: Manchester Museum

• Flikr, Facebook, etc

• Extend use of Blogs

• Tag all video content

• Special exhibitions &

public programmes

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Case Study: Te Papa, New Zealand

• Mini sites can be created for new themes

and projects

• Full Hierarchy of Narratives

• Audio, video, images and text

• Podcasts

• Content publicised on blogs

• Well documented repository

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Case Study: Te Papa, New Zealand

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Case Study: Te Papa, New Zealand

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Case Study: NMAI, EMu web admin tools

• Verify status of database

& critical info.

• Review EMu security settings

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Case Study: NMAI, EMu web admin tools

• Status page

• Audit page

• User/Group Report page

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• NSW Department of Lands

• Royal Agricultural Society, Sydney

• Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo

• Boston Museum of Science

• Moreton Bay Regional Council, QLD

• Queensland University of Technology

• DPIQ Queensland Entomology

• RMIT Design Archives

• Redland Art Gallery

• Heritage Victoria

• Mint Museum, North Carolina

• Baillieu Library, Melbourne University

Some recent new EMu clients

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Other projects

• Blackpool Illuminations

• National Museum of Egyptian Civilization

• Scandinavia

• Qatar

• NHM – various projects

• Rochdale - iMu