MEETING: EMu Hour - 22 October 2024

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Agenda: EMu Hour

Collections’ responsibility regarding Parts/Child records

• Collection creates records for specimen parts when they are being prepared for exhibition.

• • Transactions workflows: https://github.com/fieldmuseum/EMu-Documentation/wiki/efmnhtransactions-workflows#loans-to-fmnh-exhibitions
• • Catalogue workflows: https://github.com/fieldmuseum/EMu-Documentation/wiki/ecatalogue-workflows#exhibitions

• WHAT MARIE SAID IS HERE: How to document a transaction record for FMNH Exhibitions. #688

• • Currently waiting on some records from Seed Plants
• • Just done some with Fossil Vertebrates.

Natural History Collections and Repatriation webinar:

When Does NAGPRA Apply?
Date: November 7, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00-2:00 PM Mountain Time
This webinar will be recorded.
Please join us for an information session about repatriation and how it relates to natural history collections, including zoological, botanical, paleontological, and geological collections. Speakers, including National NAGPRA Program Manager Melanie O’Brien and others, will discuss the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The program will delve into the scope of NAGPRA, recent updates to NAGPRA regulations, what your institution may need to do before an upcoming deadline, how to approach repatriation, and examples of repatriation involving non-anthropological collections. There will be time for audience Q&A at the end.
Intended audience:
Collections and curatorial staff across non-anthropological disciplines
Tribal, Native Hawaiian, and institutional representatives engaged in NAGPRA compliance and consultation
Researchers, students, and community members working with or interested in issues of repatriation
Register here.

Standing Agenda Items

Training: Training docs | Signup-sheet

EMu

NetX

• NetX Training (2024 tab)

Data Cleanup and Standards

• None

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• Question 97: We noticed that there are a lot of different values in the Det. Method fields for Elevation (Above Sea Level) and Elevation (Relative)—could we get those cleaned up? (IZ, INS, Fishes) github #1216
• Question 98: What happened to the Remarks field in esites? (JD-IZ) github #1218
• Question 99: Could we get some clarification on how site synonymy works and what it does? (JD, RDLP - IZ) github #1219
• Question 100: Do we need to use Record type in Sites? Github #1220:CLOSED
• Question 101: Can we meet to discuss and develop a workflow for dealing with repatriated specimens and data, i.e., duplicated records in GBIF [AWF- Mammals]? Github #1221
• Question 102: Can we add “Primary Status” field to Field Museum Zoology website? [AWF- Mammals github #1222]