Milwaukee Public Museum

The Milwaukee Public Museum will partner with The Field Museum of Natural History to convert the institutions’ 31,000 handwritten, paper-based catalog records of its Silurian fossil invertebrate collections to electronic form in the KE Emu Collections Management System. The cooperative effort will create a consolidated online database with location, stratigraphic, and systematic data as well as select photographs of the extensive Upper Midwest Silurian collections. Twenty data-entry technicians, preferably undergraduate students with interest in paleontology from local universities, will be hired to work directly with the collections at each museum. The project will improve access to the collections and make information about them more accurate, engaging, and widely available to diverse audiences of research scientists, the general public, and students of all ages.