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VRA Conference 2009

Toronto

Please help us out by writing down your

◦ Name

◦ Institutions

◦ If you are using MDID

Eight shared collections with over 10,600 images:◦ Art Images for College Teaching

◦ American Sheet Music of the early Twentieth Century

◦ Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture

◦ John Tenniel and the American Civil War

◦ Madison Art Collection

◦ Otis Artists’ Books Collection

◦ Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

◦ English Architecture

43 institutions

154 individual connections

New collection by

Allan Kohl coming soon

◦ La Gazette du Bon Tonprovides a uniquely beautiful reflection of the elegant realm of Parisian

fashion and high society from the last years of the Belle Epoque to the dawn of the Art Deco era

Blog for news and announcements

◦ http://mdidnews.blogspot.com/

Facebook group

◦ Four members (including Andreas)

◦ Linked from blog

Support for additional media types

Interoperatibility◦ Flickr integration

◦ PowerPoint export

Slideshow presentation improvements ◦ Predefined split screen and zoom

◦ Text slides

◦ Online galleries

Customizable meta data

Work/image record distinction

Image tagging

Better content management tools

Usage statistics

(About 150 more)

MDID 2 core developed in 2001

Design decisions no longer support current needs◦ Basic architecture is difficult to extend and modify

◦ There is no support for work-image distinction

◦ Access control is inflexible

◦ No support for digital media formats other than images

User interface falling behind Web 2.0 expectations◦ Even open content is hidden behind a login page

◦ Images and slideshows cannot be bookmarked or linked to

◦ ImageViewer technology no longer supported on modern operating systems

New requirements considered from the start

◦ Support for different media types

◦ Flexible meta-data structure and access rights

◦ Bookmarkable pages

◦ Customizable page layout and design

◦ API support

New development platform

◦ Completely Open Source

◦ Cross-platform support for Windows, Linux, MacOS

◦ Significantly shorter development times

Allow students and faculty to

manage, discover, and aggregate digital

media for intuitive, flexible delivery and

presentation

Affirm our commitment to support the use of

digital media in the JMU curriculum through ongoing MDID development

Continue to promote adoption of MDID

beyond JMU

Build using open source software

Share through open source license

Embrace Web 2.0 and open access

Encourage content sharing between

individuals, institutions and the public

Leverage collective intelligence through

comments, ratings and tagging

Involve students by allowing them to

add, create, share and manage content

Implement most commonly requested features

Simpler and more powerful content discovery

Simpler and more flexible cataloging

Simpler access control options

Ubiquitous data exchange mechanisms

Fully compatible with MDID 2 remote collections

Easy migration path from MDID 2

Compatible with major operating systems

Google Code Development site

◦ Code repository

◦ Development wiki

◦ Simple issue tracker

MDID 3

◦ http://code.google.com/p/rooibos/

MediaViewer

◦ http://code.google.com/p/mediaviewer/

Initial feature goals

◦ MDID 2 functionality

◦ support for audio and video files

◦ enhanced discovery interface

◦ interoperability components

JMU timeline

◦ Evaluation and Testing – Spring/Summer 2009

◦ Migration to MDID 3 – Fall 2009

Initial version will be compatible with MDID 2 to replace current ImageViewer

Ready early summer 2009

Summer/Fall 2009

Looking for institutions willing to run MDID 3

in trial mode

◦ Should be able to diagnose, report and fix simple problems

◦ Ability to contribute to development a plus

Anybody will be able to get the latest code

from development site

Now available at http://demo.mdid.org/

Log in using “demo” for both username and

password

Limited functionality and content

JMUtube allows JMU faculty and staff to store

and deliver video and presentations

Allows creation of playlists that are easily

embedded in Blackboard and other web sites

Built on same technologies as MDID 3

JMUtube is a subset of MDID 3 functionality

Interface is focused on a specific task

Goal:

◦ Make JMUtube available to MDID community as an extension (alternative user interface) to MDID 3

◦ Optionally: Design a plug-in architecture to facilitate development of specialized interfaces and fit JMUtube into this architecture

Control access for collections and storage

areas

Collections can be bundled together into

parent collections

Art

Paintings

Mona Lisa

High Res

Image file

Storage

High Res

Low Res

Image file

Storage

Low Res

Waterlilies

Low Res

Image file

Storage

Low Res

Sculpture

David

High Res

Image file

Storage

High Res

3D Model

file

Storage

Models

Application

Django

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Windows Mac OS Linux

All browser-based features usable without

JavaScript or mouse

Enabled JavaScript will allow for easier use

and enhanced features

All pages can be bookmarked, including

search results

All layout and appearance is controlled with

easily editable HTML template files

Adjusting color, header, footer, logos, etc. is

straightforward

Context-sensitive Help link on every page

Individual help links next to critical page

elements

All links point to pages in a wiki

Wiki provides tooltips for buttons

?

?

JMU will host a global MDID Help wiki

◦ Wiki editing permissions to be determined

Other institutions can host their own if

needed, e.g. for non-English speakers

Additional documentation, guides, tutorials

can be linked from relevant wiki pages

Now hiring contractors to work on some or all

of these projects:

◦ ARTstor connector

◦ Flickr connector

◦ Blackboard building block

◦ PowerPoint import/export

More information will be available as soon

contract is awarded

◦ Target award date: April 1, 2009

Initial test versions of connectors by June

Final versions by end of grant in September

Coincides with general MDID 3 development

schedule

Andreas Knab, Lead Software Developer, CIT

Kevin Hegg, Assistant Director of

Systems, Research and Development, CIT

Tina Updike, Visual Resources Specialist, SAAH

Grover Saunders, Web Media Developer, CIT

Mary Ann Chappell, Educational Technologies

Librarian

Sarah Cheverton, Director, CIT

Sandy Maxfield, Associate Dean, L&ET

MDID wiki at http://mdid.org/

MDID users list at http://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/mdidusers-l.html

MDID project on SourceForge at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdid

Email: [email protected]

Product and company names mentioned in this presentation may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Authors:◦ Kevin Hegg ([email protected])

◦ Andreas Knab ([email protected])

◦ Christina Updike Visual Resources Specialist ([email protected])

Further Information:◦ Visit http://mdid.org/

◦ Email [email protected]

Stay for the “Ask the Experts” session

immediately following this presentation

Connect external data sources without having

to import data into MDID?

Getting data from VCat into MDID

Searching for internal data elements like IDs

and filenames