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EMu at Te Papa……One Year on
Philip EdgarManager, Collections
Information Department Museum of New Zealand Te
Papa Tongarewa
What is Te Papa ……• Located in the capital, Wellington• Combined former National Museum
and National Art Gallery• Art, Photography, History, Pacific
Cultures, Taonga Maori, and Natural History collections
• 1.8 million items• 640,000 collection object records in
EMu
EMu Implementation Project• Migration of one centralised CIS • c. 600,000 object records• c. 35,000 images
EMu Implementation Project• Added Media Asset functionality• Modified Catalogue and core
modules• merged Collection Events and
Sites modules• AAT, TGM 1, and TGN in
Thesaurus
• June 2005• All data migrated• Launched to all collections staff• 150 user accounts• Delivered to Intranet straight out
of box
Go Live
• Acquisition and Loans processes in EMu
• Use of Thesaurus and controlled vocabularies
• Imaging Team adding Media Assets
Go Live
Go Live – The Cake
EMu Support work 05/06 Training and support Data cleansing and normalisation Reports
EMu Development work 05/06 Expanded Media Asset functionality
Simplified process of creation Greater automated metadata
capture Reduction in information
duplication bulk loading media import tool
Additional media security
EMu Development work 05/06 Thesaurus modifications Record Level Security
implementation Online access to collections
Collections Online (1)
Collections Online (2)
Collections Online (3)
So, to sum up so far ….. All data migrated into Emu Users trained Two key processes managed in EMu – Acquisitions and
Loans Media can be managed in EMu catalogue with appropriate
metadata Security of media is managed through EMu Staff can upload media into EMu Bulk loading media import tool for backlog in place Record Level Security in place Appropriate thesauri and controlled vocabularies in place Basic online collections access available to public
This year …. Online collections access (1) Want to:
Deliver greater amount of content
Deliver narrative content Highlight relationships that exist
between objects, people, places and events
This year …. Online collections access (2) Investigating:
CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
Topic Maps EMu Narratives Knowledge visiualisation web
interfaces
This year …. Online collections access (3) Matapihi
(http://www.matapihi.org.nz) Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (http://www.gbif.org) NZ Virtual Herbarium
This year …. Exhibitions Process in EMu
Object Lists Exhibition text Media management Management of exhibition
objects
This year …. Matauranga Maori Thesaurus Preferred and equivalent terms
for Maori taonga names Preferred and equivalent terms
for indigenous materials and techniques
This year ….. Other Management of culturally
sensitive objects Mangement of Rights
information KE Mapper
Concluding comments Successful implementation Listened to users….but not
too much Underestimated reports Underestimated support Development never stops….