Accessing EMu

EMu is software that is hosted on an internal server and runs on your desktop. The Museum’s database manager (Bill Mertz) is responsible for maintaining this...

Field collecting

Using Collector for ArcGIS to capture field localities Starting in 2020, LACMIP began capturing field localities by utilizing the museum’s ArcGIS Online subs...

Georeferencing

As of late 2018, all LACMIP locality records are maintained in EMu, the collection management system of the NHMLA. However, georeferencing for LACMIP localit...

Migrating (Google Earth)

LACMIP uses Google Earth as its primary software for georeferencing, but this data also must be recorded with each LACMIP Site record in EMu. This page outli...

Sites

The Sites module is our primary resource for information about specimen collecting localities. Please see Axiell’s documentation for generic information abou...