2007 North American EMu User Group meeting
We invite you to the NA EMu User Group meeting in
New York, USA, taking place on 16/17 October 2007. The Natural History meeting
will take place on 15 October 2007.
New York is
one of the most spectacular cities in the world. It is home to attractions like
the Empire State
and Chrysler buildings, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller
Center, Times Square, the Bronx Zoo,
Staten Island Ferry, Brooklyn
Bridge, amazing Museums
and Botanical Gardens.
The meeting will be based at the New York Botanical Garden. Founded in 1891,
the Garden is one of the world’s great collections of plants, the region’s
leading educational center for gardening and horticulture, and an international
center for plant research. The Garden is alive with opportunities for
discovery, from an "ecotour" of the world in the Enid A. Haupt
Conservatory to an innovative indoor/outdoor science museum for kids to 50
exquisite gardens and plant collections, all on a 250-acre National Historic
Landmark site in New York City’s Bronx borough.
Presentations Topics (SUGGESTIONS PLEASE)
- New Projects and Project Updates
- New developments in EMu - KE Software
- Narrating your collection through EMu
- Advanced Crystal
Reports
Discussion
Group Topics (SUGGESTIONS PLEASE)
- User generated content and EMu – Addition of comments,
keywords, narratives, etc. What extent should that comprise part of your
collection? Should there be an interface in EMu for collection managers to
approve content? Is it valuable data? Can it just be kept in narratives
and marked as a specific type?
- Social Tagging and EMu
Please send topic and discussion group
suggestions to emuusers@kesoftware.com
with the subject title “EMu User Topic.”
Museum Tours (NYBG)
Conference attendees will have the option
to take a tram tour of the grounds of The New York Botanical Garden, including
a look at The Garden’s newest facilities, the Pfizer Laboratory and the Nolen Research
Greenhouses. Tours will also be available
of The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library,
both of which are the largest collections of their kind in the Western Hemisphere. The tour will also include the
Herbarium’s Digital Imaging Facility and the exhibits about research at the
Garden in the Britton Rotunda and Gallery. Attendees will also be able to
explore the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and the Henry and Edith Everett
Children’s Adventure
Gardens, as well as the
Rock Garden.
There is no charge for these tours but attendees will HAVE to register for
these tours before via email. More information will be posted regarding
tours and times.
Catering
KE Software will provide coffee/muffins in the morning, lunch and a break in
the afternoon for Monday (Natural History Group) Tuesday and Wednesday.There will be a reception on Tuesday night
where KE will provide drinks and appetizers.
Accommodation, travel and maps
John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) is New
York's international airport. It is
approximately 16 miles from the city centre and Grand Central Station. Allow one hour for the trip during rush hour,
45 minutes other times. The domestic airport is La Guardia Airport, approximately
8 miles from Grand Central Station. The travel time is approximately half
of that from JFK. A range of hotels is available in the city from the five
star luxury to budget chain hotels. Please
book hotels NO LATER THAN JUNE 30th.
Prices will continue to climb. It
is high season for New York.
Social event
KE will be providing a drinks and appetizers reception on the Tuesday
evening at New York
Botanical Garden’s
Visitor Center Cafe; this will be held from 5pm - 7pm.
Register by August 30th
This event is supported by the New York Botanical Gardens and KE Software -
there is no registration fee to attend the meeting.
Registration is to be completed by August 30th to emuusers@kesoftware.com with subject
title "EMu Users Registration 2007."
Updates
Please keep checking the emuusers.org
website for current updates and postings. It will be under title heading
‘conference’ and ‘New York 2007.’
Podcasts
We are aiming to record each of the sessions for the 2007 NA EMu User Group
meeting. Content should be available to download within two weeks of the
completion of the meeting.
Organizers
If you need to contact the organizers please email:
We look forward to seeing you in New
York!