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 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 MDID 2 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/ MDID 2 Shared content Six shared collections with over 9,000 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 MDID 2 Institutions connecting to shared collections MDID 2 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 MDID 2 Upcoming features ImageMagick integration • Will fix thumbnail quality problems Improved browse and search result screens New browse terms screen MDID 2 New browse terms screen MDID 2 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 MDID 2 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. MDID 2 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. MDID 2 Guest speakers Kevin Ford Columbia College Chicago MDID Usage Statistics MDID 2 Guest speakers Mark Pompelia Rice University IRIS-Sakai-MDID integration MDID 2 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. MDID 2 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 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 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 MDID 2 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 MDID 2 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) MDID 2 IMLS Grant – Making Connections Content aggregators/gateways MDID as content consumer and—for shareable collections—provider Examples • MERLOT • OAIster • IMSL-DCC MDID 2 IMLS Grant – Making Connections Online, media-sharing communities MDID as content consumer Examples • Flickr • PicasaWeb • Wikimedia Commons • YouTube MDID 2 IMLS Grant – Making Connections Course Management Systems MDID as content provider Examples • • • • • ANGEL Blackboard Moodle Sakai WebCT MDID 2 IMLS Grant – Making Connections Federated search engines MDID as content provider Examples • Central Search • LibraryFind • MetaLib • Muse • OpenSiteSearch • WebFeat MDID 2 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) MDID 2 IMLS Grant – Making Connections Standalone applications and browser-based tools for organizing, annotating, manipulating and displaying images MDID as content provider Examples • • • • • • ARTstor’s OIV MDID ImageViewer Microsoft PowerPoint Pachyderm Scholar’s Box VUE MDID 2 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 ARTstor’s XML Gateway CONTENTdm’s ZCONTENT Flickr’s API RLG’s RLIN21 MDID 2 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 MDID 2 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 MDID 2 IMLS Grant – Timeline MDID 2 Other News Archivision now has an online MDID catalog and demo CAMIO integration issues • CAMIO now owned by OCLC MDID 2 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 MDID 2 Questions? Also come to “Ask the Experts” session in Pavilion 1 immediately following this presentation Please return your responses to the MDID User Survey