Currently the National Museum of the American Indian’s EMu implementation holds over half a million multimedia assets (560,578) totalling 3.5 TB, all digital images: 260,994 low-res scans of catalogue cards of the Object Collection; 30,930 high-res scans of Photographic collection items (glass plate negatives, slides, prints, etc.); 266,036 born-digital images of the Object Collections; and 2114 born-digital images made during conservation treatments. In addition to these, NMAI will eventually add thousands of born-digital and scanned publication-quality object photos as well as scanned publications, accession documentation, field notes, repatriation reports and correspondence, and other documentation. You might well ask “Why so many?”

The Manitoba Vital Statistics Agency has been a KE client since 1998 and has operated a full implementation of KE Vitalware since 2005. A crucial advantage of upgrading to Vitalware has been the opportunity for the Province of Manitoba to participate in Canada’s National Routing System (NRS) alongside the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.