MEETING: Monthly EMu Users - 13 February 2024

[rondlg]

#Agenda: Monthly EMu User Meeting

Parties workshop-not-group

• These are the current eparties record types and workflows

• Preference for workshopping how-to-parties in April or May?

• • In May – After members night (May 9/10) & Memorial Day
• • • B-day’s upcoming:
      MvK, KH

• Things to address include

• • how-to for various Parties workflow situations?
• • what to do about IH/HUH records?

Review of Standards work and development of EMu [JJ]

• Current documentation – https://github.com/fieldmuseum/EMu-Documentation/discussions/

Department by Department:

Anthro: [LH, JK, ECD]

• Uploading Catalog cards ~15-20k uploads (in smaller batches)
• Reviewing counts for example irns

Botany: [MvK, KH, WG]

• Brief update for EMu users if not heard already. Anna Balla has resigned, effective two weeks ago. Any questions direct them to Matt, Kimberly and Todd for now as we navigate the coming weeks and months.

Geology:

Fossil Invertebrates [PM]

• Updating taxonomic Synonymies;
• image imports to come
• new batch of interns this summer

Paleobotany [no one]

Fossil Verts [WS]

• Created new fields in 4D to receive data from fields with mixed data, moved data into these new fields which will match EMu fields when migrated.
• Preps/Parts review with CM

Physical Geology [np one]

Zoology:

Birds: [no one]

Herps: [CK,JM]

• No updates

Fishes: [SM, KS, AG]

• No updates

IZ: [SK, RDP, MP]

• Training? - Repatriating georef data from a grant; importing lat long / table
  EMu Training 2024

Insects: [MT, RS]

• Did Bruno request for a new header label report? If not RS to submit as ZD ticket.

Mammals: [AWF, RB]

• Following up on Filed As data update / label report –
• Send IRN to helpdesk (if find irn with ‘Filed As = Yes’ but doesn’t print)
• Reproductive data standards [question below]

Photo Archives: [RW, NC]

• DNG upload troubleshooting, Catalog mapping

Action: [ZK]

• IPT datasets ready to publish [zd #68132]
• Camera trap template batch examples [zd, no ticket # yet]
• Field guides report in progress, will need a little help finishing it [incoming zd ticket]

Exhibitions: [no one]

Repatriation [no one]

IT

• General FYI on funding / grants
• • EMu licenses – good for now / no need to add new licenses in near future
    but storage helps [+ coordination across collections/areas/projects; in 1TB chunks]
• Also EMu development requests – coordinate with IT
• Website updates on fieldmain (www.fieldmuseum.org) ~ accessibility scores, Fieldguides, Tanz. Mammals

Standing Agenda Items

Training: Training docs | Signup-sheet

EMu

Import training

• Basic training needed/requested

NetX

NetX Training (2024 tab)
next session during 2nd half of Tues Feb 20, 10a NetX work group
(see top of NetX work group notes doc for Zoom link)

Data Cleanup and Standards

ecatalogue

• Preps and Parts Working Group
  Homework
• Next stage -> define your buckets
• Next meeting March 5th (3-4:30)

eparties

• Clean up records for Zach : “ Emmet R. Blake”
  e.g. to consolidate Catalogue ‘Collector’ & ‘other’ fields
• Consolidated / FMNH Master Parties exists for Emmet Blake (FMNH Master IRN 133031)

[rondlg]

• Question 21: Sites country ISO2 field not automatic? [WCG] github #997
• Question 22: Where do we stand on establishing “Park” as a Rank in the Political Details section of the Site module? Hierarchically, this rank should fall below County [RDLP, JD - IZ] github #998
• Question 23: Help finding collections from a 1938 FM expedition to Guyana [ZK - Action] github #999
• Question 24: A. Will there be any areas added to the Catalog Module either as its own tab or on an existing tab to put reproductive data (measurements, remarks, etc.). B. Will there be a remarks/notes field added to the Indicators Tab and we need added prep parts to the indicator tab. (RAB-Mammals) github #1000