MEETING: Monthly EMu Users - 19 November 2024

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Axiell Training

• Reminder: Axiell charges for training, so if you sign up you need to pay.
• You will also not be trained on the Field Museum implementation

COP 16 and Indigenous peoples

New 3rd subsidiary body for Indigenous peoples and local communities

• https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2024/11/biodiversity-cop-16-important-agreement-reached-towards-goal-of-making-peace-with-nature-2/
• https://apnews.com/article/biodiversity-cop16-colombia-decisions-indigenous-53a8b16befaf621d75a2fc9b9828c2a8
• https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1156456

Department by Department:

Anthro: [LH]

Botany: [MvK, KH]

• Preparing for Picturae.
• Amazon AWS team are visiting “Felix G. MvK,, his intern and Rick Ree” in January for 2 days, to talk about the LLM and transcription services and do a demo
• MvK to reach out to Mike Yoshida.

Geology:

Fossil Invertebrates [PM]

• Adding images over the winter. Interns in summer 2025

Paleobotany [no-one]

Fossil Verts [WS]

• Adrienne is doing loans in EMu.
• Requesting global replace permissions in stratigraphy module. CM to did not find the github issue that relates to this.
• Add PalStrStratigraphyRef_tab to Field list in Replace, including the ability to specify tab numbers 1-4 [CM]

Physical Geology [no one]

Zoology:

Birds: [no one]

• IT update on their behalf. Volunteer updating taxonomy.
• Host/parasite-related Birds taxa from Action & Insects will be left alone unless we run into questions, conflicts, or duplicates-to-merge.

Herps: [no one]

Fishes: [CM]

• All good

IZ: [SK]

• Fyi from IT - GBIF replacing server infrastructure, likely IPT-downtime in late 2024/early 2025

Insects: [RB]

• Combined reports in progress.
• Working through serenity cleanup

Mammals: [AF, LJ, LN]

• Primary status field? When you set the tissue record to on=loan the status changes from “Returned to country of Origin” to On-loan. - How do we record both?
• If keeping a tissue sample but returning the specimen [to country of origin], keep a separate child Catalog record for the tissue
  use Association tab to attach specimen record as its parent.
  or can associate separate tissue records directly to each other without a parent record, e.g. if no voucher specimen record in EMu.

Photo Archives: [RW]

Action: [no one]

Exhibitions: [MG]

• Geology tabs are now visible to exhibitions groups and are working with the other departments to see if there are tabs that they can see as read-only

• Now coordinating with Zoology

• Next Botany – if tabs are ok to set as readonly for Exhibits users, add to ticket

• Africa permanent exhibition

• • Haley Sharpe partners are doing some basic training on EMu with Marie.
• • Reports tweaks / updates
• • Time zone question to IT for using the Remote desktop access.
• • Main contact is Ryan Schusler (NOT Marie)
• • Comer gallery – just an FYI from IT to start filling in those records.

Repatriation [no one]

IT []

• Avery P in Marketing is leaving/has left; if anyone uses brandcenter.fieldmuseum.org (or e.g. graphics design workflow w/ Exhibits), updates to come
• Staff profiles on fieldmain (e.g. linked from https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff ) – several fields come from HR (job title, department).
• • Contact HR to change/update values displayed online.
• • You can set pronouns & preferred 1st/last names by updating them in your ADP account.
• • To update other profile fields, contact helpdesk.

Standing Agenda Items

Training: Training docs | Signup-sheet

EMu

New Signup-sheet for 2025

NetX

• Next call is Tues Dec 10
• (Nov 26 call is canceled)

Data Cleanup and Standards

efmnhtransaction

• Next meeting Jan. 13, 2025 1-2 pm.

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• [Question 104: NOT a question, but an alert to a bug [RDLP] github Question 104: NOT a question, but an alert to a bug [RDLP] #1232]](Question 104: NOT a question, but an alert to a bug [RDLP] #1232)
• [Question 105: How to retrieve correct Family Taxonomy IRN? [AF & LN]] github Question 105: How to retrieve correct Family Taxonomy IRN? [AF & LN] #1233](Question 105: How to retrieve correct Family Taxonomy IRN? [AF & LN] #1233)