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The EMu-Documentation wiki is a place for us to share development and structural changes that we have made or that are in progress. Also to keep track of standards that have been agreed by the various EMu Working Groups.

Current LIVE version of EMu (v5.1 2307051/2306021)

Status: ONLINE. Full Access. Upgrade Finished

• Migration of measurements data: in-progress
• v5.1 2307051

Current TEST version of EMu (v5.1 2307051/2306021)

v9 migration

• Current status

Rights and Permissions

For more information on the rights and permissions pertaining to the data and information held within the Field Museum's collections management system (EMu) please take a look our Use of Collections Data and Images page.

To learn more about data management at at the Field Museum refer to the Technology Department Data Management documentation.

EMu and the web at the Field Museum

• A list of Field Museum web properties that serve data from EMu can be found at: emudata.fieldmuseum.org

Historical Structural changes: 2010-2023

IPT at the Field Museum

• Frequently Asked Questions about the IPT

Other IT & Data-handling Resources

• Using Awk and R to parse large datasets
• Fastest Way to Load Data Into PostgreSQL Using Python
• FMNH EMu-Reports repo

Other People's Jolly Good Repo's

• LUX project
• South Australian Museum
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
• GBIF
• TDWG
• IMAmuseum's EMu reports
• Vermont Center for EcoStudies