Dear All I know that not all users of Ke EMu monitor the EMu Users forum so I thought it would be a good idea to copy the posting on this list too. My apologies for those of you who do not use EMu as your Collections Management system. Those of you who do might be interested in a potential feature within EMu that could change the way you manage the pest problem. By recording pest trapping data within EMu, in addition to creating the usual summary bar-charts to communicate the situation to colleagues and senior management, an EMu Object Locator report would display the data spatially on the plans of the museum. So not only would you see a record of numbers, you would see where in the museum they occur. I have discussed this with KE Software and they have proposed a number of modifications to be able to effectively capture the pest monitoring data and display it in such a way that patterns, trends, hotspots and changing pest distributions can be observed. Details of these modifications and a visual representation of how the pest data would look can be found in either of the presentations I gave at the EMu User Group meetings this year.
I would recommend this presentation: http://www.kesoftware.com/downloads/EMu/UserGroupMeetings/2008%20North%2 0American/na_emu_users_presentation_2008-10-09.pps <http://www.kesoftware.com/downloads/EMu/UserGroupMeetings/2008%20North% 20American/na_emu_users_presentation_2008-10-09.pps> with the associated notes (http://www.kesoftware.com/downloads/EMu/UserGroupMeetings/2008%20North% 20American/na_emu_users_meeting_dave_smith_notes.doc). One slide is blank - this is an AVI file illustrating the temporal change in the pest distribution, which didn't load, but can be found here (http://www.kesoftware.com/downloads/EMu/UserGroupMeetings/2008%20Europe an/Presentations/dave_smith_-_all_anthrenus_2003.avi) n.b. it may take a few minutes to download. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. There has been much interest from institutes in UK, Australia and North America. I will also be starting a discussion thread at www.emuusers.org to gain an understanding of what institutions might require if an IPM Module were to be specified. This could include environmental data, facilities activities etc.. Thanks Dave Smith Natural History Museum, London. David Smith Petrology Collections Manager Natural History Museum, London
