c.. Mineral Sciences, including petrology, mineralogy, meteorites, volcanoes and eruptions (with supporting modules such as 

chemical analyses)  

  d.. Botany, including herbarium and living collections (with supporting modules such as propagation)  

  e.. Palaeobiology, including vertebrate, invertebrate and botanic palaeontology  

  f.. Entomology  

  g.. Anthropology 

plus a host of cultural and art related disciplines 

  > Estimate of size and distribution of user base 

Several installations in natural history museums (e.g. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Natural History 

Museum London). See http://www.kesoftware.com/clients region.html for the list of installations. 

Other large and significant natural history users include: 

  a.. American Museum of Natural History  

  b.. New York Botanical Gardens  

  c.. Field Museum of Natural History  

  d.. Peabody Museum of Natural History  

  e.. Australian Museum  

  f.. Royal Botanic Gardens  

  g.. Museum Victoria  

  h.. Manchester Museum 

There are also several other medium sized natural history clients. 

  > Contact information and URL 

Name: Address: Email: info@kesoftware.com 

URL: http://www.ke.com.au/ke/products/emu/emu.html 

Suitable contact details would be: 

Name: John Doolan 

Address: 57 University Street, Carlton  VIC  3053  Australia 

Email: John.Doolan@kesoftware.com 

URL: www.kesoftware.com 

  > Data import capabilities and/or limitations 

Data conversion can be done from any file format, preferred formats are TAB delimited ASCII files and contemporary database 

formats such as Microsoft Access. Data conversions are carried out by KE Software. 

  > Data export capabilities and/or limitations 

Export possible to tab and comma delimited text files, KE Texpress format, and html. 

The default export format is XML. Other export formats include CSV, Tab delimited, as an ODBC data source, HTML, KE Texpress 

format. 

We would like to ask you to correct these information as well as completing the following items which we could not see from your 

website. 

  > URL or other source of user documentation 

Product documentation is available at http://emuhelp.kesoftware.com/master/en/index.htm. Please note that this is the base 

documentation. It is augmented with additional information related to a specific implementation (e.g. inclusion of our gazetteer or 

sites modules plus details of a customised design). An example of our product documentation augmented in this way can be found at 

http://emuhelpnmnh.mel.kesoftware.com/. 

  > URL or other source of database model documentation (tables, 

  > attributes, relationships, and their semantics) 

The Product documentation incorporates data dictionary information. This can be found under the Modules chapter. For example, the 

data dictionary for the Catalogue component of the NMNH product documentation can be seen at 

http://emuhelpnmnh.mel.kesoftware.com/Modules/Catalogue/field_tech.htm. 

We would be grateful if you could answer this email by July 6 so that we can include your response in our report to the GBIF 

secretariat. Our apologies for the short deadline! 

Again, please let me know if you require any further information regarding KE EMu. 

Yours faithfully, 

John Doolan

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