MDID 2
VRA Conference 2007
Kansas City
Madison Digital Image Database
User Group
March 29, 2007
Kevin Hegg, Andreas Knab, Christina Updike
James Madison University
MDID 2
Agenda
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Developments since VRA Conference 2006
Upcoming features
New features
ImageViewer
Guest speakers
IMLS Grant
Questions
• followed by “Ask the Experts” in Pavilion 1
MDID 2
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@jmu.edu
Hosted two online Q&A sessions
 Updated and expanded MDID wiki at
http://mdid.org/
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Shared content
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Six shared collections with over 9,000 images
now available (see http://mdid.org/):
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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
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Features:
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New full-text search
• New data import feature
• Improved ImageManager
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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
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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
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Current model:
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Each record has one associated image
Three derivatives of image stored on server
New model:
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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
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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
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Looking for new technology with which to build a
new ImageViewer (or MediaViewer)
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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
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Timeline: As soon as possible.
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Guest speakers
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Kevin Ford
Columbia College Chicago
MDID Usage Statistics
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Guest speakers
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Mark Pompelia
Rice University
IRIS-Sakai-MDID integration
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IMLS Grant – Overview
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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
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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 aren’t forced to choose a particular system or set of
tools
Interoperability should encourage individuals and
institutions to share their images and image collections
MDID 2
IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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Digital Asset Management (DAM) with some degree of
Discovery/Access/Presentation (DAP) functionality
MDID as content consumer and provider
Examples
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Almagest
ARTstor
CONTENTdm
Embark
Luna
MDID
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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Online image collections and digital libraries
MDID as content consumer
Examples – freely accessible content
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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
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ARTstor
CAMIO
CSA Illustrata
Grove Art Online
Prometheus
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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Institutional repositories (systems for
building, preserving and managing
institutional output)
MDID as content provider and consumer
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DigiTool (commercial)
• Dspace (open source)
• Fedora (open source)
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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Content aggregators/gateways
MDID as content consumer and—for
shareable collections—provider
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MERLOT
• OAIster
• IMSL-DCC
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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Online, media-sharing communities
MDID as content consumer
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Flickr
• PicasaWeb
• Wikimedia Commons
• YouTube
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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Course Management Systems
MDID as content provider
Examples
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ANGEL
Blackboard
Moodle
Sakai
WebCT
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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Federated search engines
MDID as content provider
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Central Search
• LibraryFind
• MetaLib
• Muse
• OpenSiteSearch
• WebFeat
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
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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:
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Image quality unpredictable
Catalog data almost non-existent
Rights issues.
Examples
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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
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Standalone applications and browser-based tools for
organizing, annotating, manipulating and displaying
images
MDID as content provider
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ARTstor’s OIV
MDID ImageViewer
Microsoft PowerPoint
Pachyderm
Scholar’s Box
VUE
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IMLS Grant – Interoperability
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Data exchange standards, protocols, specifications,
interfaces, and guidelines that might be used to connect
MDID to other systems, collections and tools:
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OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE
OKI OSID
Z39.50 and ZING SRU/SRW
RSS
OpenURL, REST, XML-RPC, SOAP, etc.
Proprietary APIs
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ARTstor’s XML Gateway
CONTENTdm’s ZCONTENT
Flickr’s API
RLG’s 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
MDID 2
IMLS Grant – Interoperability Diagram
Blackboard
PowerPoint
RLG Online
Databases
MERLOT
Luna
Insight
ARTstor
Sakai
Flickr
Pachyderm
Proprietary API
Internet
Search
Engines
MDID Application
YouTube
Z39.50
Proprietary
Web Services
XML
Gateways
VUE
OSID
MDID API
Core
EmbARK
MDID API
Z39.50
SRW/
SRU
OSID
Proprietary API
OAI-PMH
Z39.50
DigiTool
Federated
Searches
Fedora
Dspace
CONTENTdm
American
Memory
(LOC)
OAIster
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IMLS Grant – Timeline
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Other News
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Archivision now has an online MDID
catalog and demo
CAMIO integration issues
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CAMIO now owned by OCLC
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Support
 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: mdid@jmu.edu
MDID 2
Information
Product and company names
mentioned in this presentation
may be the trademarks of their
respective owners.
Authors
 Kevin Hegg
Software Engineer
heggkj@jmu.edu
 Andreas Knab
Computer Systems Engineer
knab2ar@jmu.edu
 Christina Updike
Visual Resources Specialist
updikecb@jmu.edu
Further Information
 Visit http://mdid.org/
 Email mdid@jmu.edu
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Questions?
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Also come to “Ask the Experts” session in
Pavilion 1 immediately following this
presentation
Please return your responses to the
MDID User Survey