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Madison Digital Image DatabaseUser Group
VRA Conference 2007 Kansas City

• March 29 2007
• Kevin Hegg Andreas Knab Christina Updike
• James Madison University

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Agenda

• Developments since VRA Conference 2006
• Upcoming features
• New features
• ImageViewer
• Guest speakers
• IMLS Grant
• Questions
• followed by Ask the Experts in Pavilion 1

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Developments since VRA 2006

• Received Institute of Museum and Library Services
  (IMLS) National Leadership Grant for Making
  Connections Linking MDID to Other Image Systems
  and Tools
• Released MDID2 0.7.4 and pre-0.8

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Support

• Continued support through email and mailing list
• Over 700 responses on MDID users mailing list
• Over 100 support requests to mdid_at_jmu.edu
• Hosted two online QA sessions
• Updated and expanded MDID wiki at http//mdid.org/

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Shared content

• Six shared collections with over 9000 images now
  available (see http//mdid.org/)
• 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
  Political Cartoons from Punch 1860-1865
• Madison Art Collection
• Otis Artists Books Collection

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Institutions connecting to shared collections
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Pre-release 0.8

• Features
• New full-text search
• New data import feature
• Improved ImageManager
• This release is available and can be used
• Called pre-release because it does not have all
  the features that release 0.8 will have

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Upcoming features

• ImageMagick integration
• Will fix thumbnail quality problems
• Improved browse and search result screens
• New browse terms screen

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New browse terms screen
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Multimedia and archival files

• Current model
• Each record has one associated image
• Three derivatives of image stored on server
• New model
• Each record has any number of associated local or
  remote resources
• Local resources stored unmodified on server for
  example archival images
• Each resource has a thumbnail for display in
  search results
• Derivatives of image resources created as needed
  and cached on server

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ImageViewer

• Built on technology (Macromedia Director MX 2004)
  which has not been updated in several years
• MacOS and Windows operating systems have evolved
  since last release of Macromedia Director
• ImageViewer only runs in emulation mode on newer
  operating systems
• Needs facelift and new functionality to support
  audio video predefined splits etc.

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ImageViewer

• Looking for new technology with which to build a
  new ImageViewer (or MediaViewer)
• Must still run on both MacOS and Windows
• Option 1 New version of Adobe Director rumored
  to be released in 2007
• Option 2 Adobe Apollo and various SWF wrappers
• Timeline As soon as possible.

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Guest speakers

• Kevin FordColumbia College ChicagoMDID Usage
  Statistics

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Guest speakers

• Mark PompeliaRice UniversityIRIS-Sakai-MDID
  integration

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IMLS Grant Overview

• 2006 National Leadership Grants for Libraries
• Grant Category Research and Demonstration
• Project Title Making Connections Linking MDID
  to Other Image Systems and Tools
• Description JMU will research and develop the
  means of allowing its MDID to be used by more
  educators and with different systems and tools.
  The results of this project will allow users to
  access many more image collections and will serve
  as a model for interoperability in image systems.

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IMLS Grant Guiding Principles

• We should be able to work with the tools and
  systems we prefer
• We should be able to bring digital images from
  disparate and previously disconnected resources
  together in a single coherent easy-to-manage
  interface
• Interoperability should work in both directions
  so that we arent forced to choose a particular
  system or set of tools
• Interoperability should encourage individuals and
  institutions to share their images and image
  collections

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Digital Asset Management (DAM) with some degree
  of Discovery/Access/Presentation (DAP)
  functionality
• MDID as content consumer and provider
• Examples
• Almagest
• ARTstor
• CONTENTdm
• Embark
• Luna
• MDID

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Online image collections and digital libraries
• MDID as content consumer
• Examples freely accessible content
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• George Eastman House
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• MOMA
• NYPL Digital Gallery
• SAH Image Exchange (architectural photos)
• TimePix (images from Time Inc. publications)
• Trove.net
• Various Luna-powered collections
• Examples membership/subscription
• ARTstor
• CAMIO
• CSA Illustrata
• Grove Art Online
• Prometheus

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Institutional repositories (systems for building
  preserving and managing institutional output)
• MDID as content provider and consumer
• Examples
• DigiTool (commercial)
• Dspace (open source)
• Fedora (open source)

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Content aggregators/gateways
• MDID as content consumer andfor shareable
  collectionsprovider
• Examples
• MERLOT
• OAIster
• IMSL-DCC

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Online media-sharing communities
• MDID as content consumer
• Examples
• Flickr
• PicasaWeb
• Wikimedia Commons
• YouTube

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Course Management Systems
• MDID as content provider
• Examples
• ANGEL
• Blackboard
• Moodle
• Sakai
• WebCT

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Federated search engines
• MDID as content provider
• Examples
• Central Search
• LibraryFind
• MetaLib
• Muse
• OpenSiteSearch
• WebFeat

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Internet search engines
• MDID as provider small images and catalog data
  only or larger images for collections in the
  public domain
• MDID as consumer At least three major obstacles
  
• Image quality unpredictable
• Catalog data almost non-existent
• Rights issues.
• Examples
• Alta Vista
• Google Image Search
• Live Search (Microsoft)
• Lycos Image Gallery
• And many more (Ditto.com Ixquick Metasearch
  picsearch)

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IMLS Grant Making Connections

• Standalone applications and browser-based tools
  for organizing annotating manipulating and
  displaying images
• MDID as content provider
• Examples
• ARTstors OIV
• MDID ImageViewer
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Pachyderm
• Scholars Box
• VUE

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IMLS Grant Interoperability

• Data exchange standards protocols
  specifications interfaces and guidelines that
  might be used to connect MDID to other systems
  collections and tools
• OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE
• OKI OSID
• Z39.50 and ZING SRU/SRW
• RSS
• OpenURL REST XML-RPC SOAP etc.
• Proprietary APIs
• ARTstors XML Gateway
• CONTENTdms ZCONTENT
• Flickrs API
• RLGs RLIN21

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IMLS Grant API Definition

• An API is the interface that a computer system
  or application provides in order to allow
  requests for service to be made of it by other
  computer programs and/or to allow data to be
  exchanged between them.
• -- Wikipedia 3/19/2007

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IMLS Grant MDID API
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IMLS Grant Interoperability Diagram
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IMLS Grant Timeline
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Other News

• Archivision now has an online MDID catalog and
  demo
• CAMIO integration issues
• CAMIO now owned by OCLC

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Support

• MDID wiki at http//mdid.org/
• MDID users list at http//listserv.jmu.edu/archive
  s/mdidusers-l.html
• MDID project on SourceForge at http//sourceforge.
  net/projects/mdid
• Email mdid_at_jmu.edu

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Information

• Authors
• Kevin HeggSoftware Engineerheggkj_at_jmu.edu
• Andreas KnabComputer Systems Engineerknab2ar_at_jmu
  .edu
• Christina UpdikeVisual Resources
  Specialistupdikecb_at_jmu.edu
• Further Information
• Visit http//mdid.org/
• Email mdid_at_jmu.edu

Product and company names mentioned in this
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respective owners.
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Questions

• Also come to Ask the Experts session in
  Pavilion 1 immediately following this
  presentation
• Please return your responses to theMDID User
  Survey