EMu

A powerful, multidisciplinary Collections Management System

The EMu Collections Management System has been at the forefront of collections management for more than three decades. Comprehensive and flexible, EMu can accommodate the requirements of any collecting institution.

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Provide narrative information

Build an evolving story around your collections

EMu’s Narratives module allows users to author narrative material and associate it with different components of a collection: objects, sites, people, multimedia resources, events, and so on. Narratives can be developed for specific audiences (primary school children, researchers, the general public for instance) and are suitable for a wide range of purposes, such as exhibition overviews, wall labels, brochures, and web-based stories.

Preserve your digital assets

Preserve and manage your multimedia assets

EMu incorporates a comprehensive multimedia management system for handling all of your multimedia assets. The Multimedia module is fully integrated with every other module so that multimedia resources can be associated with any record anywhere throughout EMu.

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EMPOWER RAPID DIGITIZATION

A responsive web-based interface

Axiell Sapphire is a data entry and editing interface to your EMu data. It allows you to to provide simple easy to use and safe web forms to allow more users to contribute to your collections data. You can design data entry forms to lead your users through the rapid, accurate and efficient capture of data.

Communicate with multiple systems

With rich XML-based import and export capabilities, EMu ensures you can interchange information with any contemporary systems. You can also associate web resources directly with records in your system.

Why choose EMu

Multilingual

EMu supports Unicode as well as right-to-left languages (Arabic and Hebrew)

Rich feature set

Conduct powerful collections research and analyses using the most sophisticated CMS on the market

Catalogue to international standards

EMu is Spectrum compliant and adheres to all relevant international standards

Manage digital assets

Manage multimedia, text files and physical objects in one central database

Strong taxonomy support

Manage complex taxonomies and synonymies

Manage your logistics efficiently

Track and monitor all of your loans and exhibitions

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What our customers say about EMu

There’s a lot of institutional history that’s fragmented among our different curatorial departments and the system provides a context and a milieu in which to reunite that information that’s been orphaned in many cases for over 100 years.

Larry Gall, Computer Systems Office Informatics Manager, Entomology Peabody Museum of Natural History

Our ability now to be online and to have people access our collection in that way to complete research is really helping us to fulfil the mission to the public.