Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
VRA 2011 MDID Users Group Presentation
Here is the presentation from the MDID Users Group at the VRA 2011 conference in Minneapolis. Session notes are available also.
MDID Users Group at VRA 2011
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains
Mary Ann Chappell and Christina Updike presentated during the VRA + ARLIS/NA conference session "Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains". Both the presentation and script are available.
Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains
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MDID 3 Poster Session at VRA 2011
This is the MDID poster that was on exhibit during the poster session at the 2011 VRA conference. You can view it online and download the PDF.
MDID 3 Flyer
Here is the latest version of the MDID 3 flyer distributed during the 2011 VRA conference. You can view it online and download the PDF.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
MDID SIG and Poster Sessions
Greetings,
This is just a reminder that there will be a MDID Special Interest Group Session with a presentation entitled "MDID3: Cultivating Multimedia on Your Campus" at the VRA + ARLIS/NA conference on Thursday, March 24, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the Marquette II room. This informative session is open to anyone using or interested in MDID, a freely shared educational resource distributed under an Open Source license. We encourage you to add yourself as "interested" to the meeting on the conference SCHED.
Members of the project team will also be available to talk and answer questions, with our poster "MDID3: Taking the 'Repose' out of Repository," at the Poster Session on Sunday, March 27 from 8:00-9:30 a.m. in Salon D.
Looking forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!
This is just a reminder that there will be a MDID Special Interest Group Session with a presentation entitled "MDID3: Cultivating Multimedia on Your Campus" at the VRA + ARLIS/NA conference on Thursday, March 24, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the Marquette II room. This informative session is open to anyone using or interested in MDID, a freely shared educational resource distributed under an Open Source license. We encourage you to add yourself as "interested" to the meeting on the conference SCHED.
Members of the project team will also be available to talk and answer questions, with our poster "MDID3: Taking the 'Repose' out of Repository," at the Poster Session on Sunday, March 27 from 8:00-9:30 a.m. in Salon D.
Looking forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Taking the "Repose" Out of Repository
Presentation given at VIVA/LAC Meeting at Bridgewater College on December 10, 2010.
Taking the "Repose" Out of Repository
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Teaching with Technology = Teamwork
SECAC VRA affiliate session: "United We Stand: Forging Partnerships in Support of the Digital Classroom"
Chair: Jeannine Keefer, University of Richmond
"Teaching with Technology = Teamwork"
Corinne Diop and Christina Updike, James Madison University
Teaching with technology requires tools and support from many areas on a University campus. At James Madison University support can be drawn from the Center for Instructional Technology, the Center for Faculty Innovation, and the Visual Resources Center of the School of Art and Art History. Faculty have access to a wide range of technology in support of their curriculum. The Madison Digital Image Database (MDID 3) is a system for managing digital media collections and integrating those into the teaching and learning process, the Media Viewer is the presentation tool used in Technology Classrooms, JMUtube allows posting of licensed or self-produced videos, and Blackboard is a hub for course information and communication. A team of University staff works campus-wide developing the programs, providing technical training and support, and proactively researching what will be needed in the future. This paper will discuss how a partnership with visual resources staff and faculty can build the network of support necessary to teach with technology. Features of two online courses, the History of Photography and a Screen-based Photography/Video course, will be demonstrated as successful examples of the digital classroom.
Presentation Narrative
Chair: Jeannine Keefer, University of Richmond
"Teaching with Technology = Teamwork"
Corinne Diop and Christina Updike, James Madison University
Teaching with technology requires tools and support from many areas on a University campus. At James Madison University support can be drawn from the Center for Instructional Technology, the Center for Faculty Innovation, and the Visual Resources Center of the School of Art and Art History. Faculty have access to a wide range of technology in support of their curriculum. The Madison Digital Image Database (MDID 3) is a system for managing digital media collections and integrating those into the teaching and learning process, the Media Viewer is the presentation tool used in Technology Classrooms, JMUtube allows posting of licensed or self-produced videos, and Blackboard is a hub for course information and communication. A team of University staff works campus-wide developing the programs, providing technical training and support, and proactively researching what will be needed in the future. This paper will discuss how a partnership with visual resources staff and faculty can build the network of support necessary to teach with technology. Features of two online courses, the History of Photography and a Screen-based Photography/Video course, will be demonstrated as successful examples of the digital classroom.
Presentation Narrative
Secac presentation
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Friday, July 30, 2010
MDID3 Status
To the MDID User Community:
Please note that the recently released version of MDID3 is a pre-production release and as such should NOT be used in a production environment. Our intention with this release is to give interested members of the MDID community a preview of how MDID3 will look and work. This version of MDID3 is not meant to replace MDID2 at this time. We are still actively developing important features; such as remote collection sharing, remote collection searching, presentation packaging, user management, streaming video, a desktop version of the ImageViewer, etc.
During the fall semester at JMU, we will run both MDID2 and MDID3, using the migration tool to periodically copy MDID2 data into MDID3. Faculty and students will experiment with MDID3 but will rely on MDID2 for course-critical work. Our plan at JMU is to have a full-featured ImageViewer (with dual screen support) in the classroom by the end of September and a production-ready version of MDID3 online by the end of this year.
In a previous message, we suggested some steps your institution can take to prepare for migration from MDID 2 to MDID 3. Administrators should document any customizations, including custom user authentication. Curators should clean up collection metadata fields and map as many fields as possible to the relevant Dublin Core fields. The MDID 3 migration tool will copy users, groups, collections, records, etc. Due to differences in data structures and permissions, the results of the migration need to be reviewed before the new system is put into production, but none of the user data stored in MDID 2 should be lost.
Thank you for your continued interest in the MDID system and your support for our development efforts.
Please note that the recently released version of MDID3 is a pre-production release and as such should NOT be used in a production environment. Our intention with this release is to give interested members of the MDID community a preview of how MDID3 will look and work. This version of MDID3 is not meant to replace MDID2 at this time. We are still actively developing important features; such as remote collection sharing, remote collection searching, presentation packaging, user management, streaming video, a desktop version of the ImageViewer, etc.
During the fall semester at JMU, we will run both MDID2 and MDID3, using the migration tool to periodically copy MDID2 data into MDID3. Faculty and students will experiment with MDID3 but will rely on MDID2 for course-critical work. Our plan at JMU is to have a full-featured ImageViewer (with dual screen support) in the classroom by the end of September and a production-ready version of MDID3 online by the end of this year.
In a previous message, we suggested some steps your institution can take to prepare for migration from MDID 2 to MDID 3. Administrators should document any customizations, including custom user authentication. Curators should clean up collection metadata fields and map as many fields as possible to the relevant Dublin Core fields. The MDID 3 migration tool will copy users, groups, collections, records, etc. Due to differences in data structures and permissions, the results of the migration need to be reviewed before the new system is put into production, but none of the user data stored in MDID 2 should be lost.
Thank you for your continued interest in the MDID system and your support for our development efforts.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Instructions for Installing MDID3 on Windows 2008
Instructions for installing MDID3 on Windows 2008 are now available. Also look at Upgrading from MDID2.
MDID3 is still in development. A number of features required for use in a live production environment are not yet complete. These include remote collection sharing, remote collection searching, presentation packaging, user management, streaming video, etc. We recommend that you continue to use (or start using) MDID2 in production until these features are completed. To make this easy, we are distributing MDID3 with a migration tool that allows you to periodically copy your MDID2 data into MDID3 (note that data cannot be copied from MDID3 to MDID2). In this way you can run both versions in parallel for the purposes of evaluating and testing MDID3.
Please report bugs in the software or problems with the installation instructions to mdid@jmu.edu. We ask everybody to refrain from submitting new feature requests or asking about release dates for particular features at this time. We will announce new features as they become available. Upgrading MDID3 from one version to a newer version will be easy.
MDID3 is still in development. A number of features required for use in a live production environment are not yet complete. These include remote collection sharing, remote collection searching, presentation packaging, user management, streaming video, etc. We recommend that you continue to use (or start using) MDID2 in production until these features are completed. To make this easy, we are distributing MDID3 with a migration tool that allows you to periodically copy your MDID2 data into MDID3 (note that data cannot be copied from MDID3 to MDID2). In this way you can run both versions in parallel for the purposes of evaluating and testing MDID3.
Please report bugs in the software or problems with the installation instructions to mdid@jmu.edu. We ask everybody to refrain from submitting new feature requests or asking about release dates for particular features at this time. We will announce new features as they become available. Upgrading MDID3 from one version to a newer version will be easy.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
MDID 3 Status Update
We're almost there!
MDID3 went into live testing at James Madison University a couple of weeks ago, with a small number of faculty and curators making sure the migration and fundamental functionality work as expected.
Before we officially announce and encourage others to download and install a beta version, we need to fix a couple of last-minute bugs and create more detailed installation instructions for the different supported platforms.
As always the current development version is available in a Google Code repository at http://code.google.com/p/rooibos/.
MDID3 went into live testing at James Madison University a couple of weeks ago, with a small number of faculty and curators making sure the migration and fundamental functionality work as expected.
Before we officially announce and encourage others to download and install a beta version, we need to fix a couple of last-minute bugs and create more detailed installation instructions for the different supported platforms.
As always the current development version is available in a Google Code repository at http://code.google.com/p/rooibos/.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Federated Search
Several people have asked for a demo of how collections external to MDID 3 will be searched. The video below shows an example using the NASA Image eXchange (NIX) collection.
After running a search on "Titan", result counts from Flickr, ARTstor and NIX are displayed. Opening up the NIX screen, any record can be selected and immediately added to a presentation or viewed in detail. Flickr will work in the same fashion. ARTstor images can only be displayed as thumbnails until they are imported into MDID 3 manually, and of course an ARTstor subscription is required.
After running a search on "Titan", result counts from Flickr, ARTstor and NIX are displayed. Opening up the NIX screen, any record can be selected and immediately added to a presentation or viewed in detail. Flickr will work in the same fashion. ARTstor images can only be displayed as thumbnails until they are imported into MDID 3 manually, and of course an ARTstor subscription is required.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
MDID 3 Flyer
Several people have asked for a PDF version of the MDID 3 flyer distributed during the VRA conference. You can view it online and download the PDF.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
VRA 2010 MDID Users Group Presentation
Here is the presentation from last week's MDID Users Group at the VRA conference in Atlanta. Session notes will follow soon.
VRA 2010 MDID Users Group Presentation
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
See us at VRA Atlanta
We'll be showing the latest developments on MDID during the following sessions:
Thursday, March 18, 2:00-3:30pm
SIG Meeting: MDID Users Group
Friday, March 19, 3:30-5:00pm
Ask the Experts Forum: MDID
Friday, March 19, 5:00-6:30pm
SIG Meeting: VRA Digital Matchmaking Group
See the complete conference schedule
Thursday, March 18, 2:00-3:30pm
SIG Meeting: MDID Users Group
Friday, March 19, 3:30-5:00pm
Ask the Experts Forum: MDID
Friday, March 19, 5:00-6:30pm
SIG Meeting: VRA Digital Matchmaking Group
See the complete conference schedule
Monday, February 15, 2010
MDID 3 as a platform for building innovative multimedia applications
This post has originally been published in the February 2010 issue of Images, the newsletter of the VRA.
MDID 3 will feature an updated version of the familiar interface for discovering images, building and presenting slideshows and managing collections. Beyond the familiar, MDID 3 will also serve as a powerful platform for building innovative, web-based multimedia applications. The MDID 3 core stores, manages and delivers data records and media files; web developers will be able to author customized user interfaces to take advantage of specific MDID 3 core functionality.
The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) at James Madison University (JMU) is currently using the MDID 3 platform to power JMUtube, a web application that allows faculty to upload and manage video and audio files for delivery to students through a variety of venues, including class web sites and Blackboard. JMUtube takes advantage of the MDID 3 core to store video and audio files and associated metadata. It also uses MDID 3 to manage user accounts and create thumbnail derivatives for audio and video files. JMUtube users, who for the most part are not teaching with still images and do not need the full functionality of MDID, may not even be aware that they are using an MDID-powered web application.
CIT is also using the MDID 3 platform to create a highly specialized oral history web application for history faculty. All audio files and associated metadata and audio transcripts are stored and managed by the MDID 3 engine. A novel interface allows faculty and students in the history department to synchronize audio time lines with typed transcripts. A web page for each composite record allows users to listen to the audio recording as the transcript automatically scrolls in step with the recording. Such functionality is beyond the scope of the traditional MDID web application, since it is only applicable to a relatively small set of records.
JMUtube and the oral history project exemplify the manner in which MDID can move beyond a single discipline into multiple disciplines. Imaginative faculty and skilled programmers will be able to collaborate to create innovative and useful multimedia applications. Once completed, the applications can be easily shared with other institutions as add-ons to existing MDID 3 installations.
MDID 3 will feature an updated version of the familiar interface for discovering images, building and presenting slideshows and managing collections. Beyond the familiar, MDID 3 will also serve as a powerful platform for building innovative, web-based multimedia applications. The MDID 3 core stores, manages and delivers data records and media files; web developers will be able to author customized user interfaces to take advantage of specific MDID 3 core functionality.
The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) at James Madison University (JMU) is currently using the MDID 3 platform to power JMUtube, a web application that allows faculty to upload and manage video and audio files for delivery to students through a variety of venues, including class web sites and Blackboard. JMUtube takes advantage of the MDID 3 core to store video and audio files and associated metadata. It also uses MDID 3 to manage user accounts and create thumbnail derivatives for audio and video files. JMUtube users, who for the most part are not teaching with still images and do not need the full functionality of MDID, may not even be aware that they are using an MDID-powered web application.
CIT is also using the MDID 3 platform to create a highly specialized oral history web application for history faculty. All audio files and associated metadata and audio transcripts are stored and managed by the MDID 3 engine. A novel interface allows faculty and students in the history department to synchronize audio time lines with typed transcripts. A web page for each composite record allows users to listen to the audio recording as the transcript automatically scrolls in step with the recording. Such functionality is beyond the scope of the traditional MDID web application, since it is only applicable to a relatively small set of records.
JMUtube and the oral history project exemplify the manner in which MDID can move beyond a single discipline into multiple disciplines. Imaginative faculty and skilled programmers will be able to collaborate to create innovative and useful multimedia applications. Once completed, the applications can be easily shared with other institutions as add-ons to existing MDID 3 installations.
Monday, December 14, 2009
VRA Conference Atlanta 2010
The schedule for the 2010 VRA Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA is available online.
MDID will continue to be represented with the MDID Users Group meeting on Thursday, March 18, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm.
We will also be part of an Ask the Experts session, probably the one on Friday, March 19, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, although this could still change.
Hope to see you there!
MDID will continue to be represented with the MDID Users Group meeting on Thursday, March 18, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm.
We will also be part of an Ask the Experts session, probably the one on Friday, March 19, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, although this could still change.
Hope to see you there!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Development Update
Development work on MDID 3 has continued throughout the summer and fall and we have made significant progress with the application core and frontend support. The MDID user interface and management tools are only partially complete at this time and require some additional work.
At this time we are targeting the 2010 Annual VRA Conference in March for the official release.
We are also experimenting with MDID 3 as the backend for different multimedia web applications here at JMU. We will shortly switch JMUtube, our faculty video site, to use MDID 3 as the data management system. The Shenandoah Valley Oral History Project will be another showcase for this new functionality.
At this time we are targeting the 2010 Annual VRA Conference in March for the official release.
We are also experimenting with MDID 3 as the backend for different multimedia web applications here at JMU. We will shortly switch JMUtube, our faculty video site, to use MDID 3 as the data management system. The Shenandoah Valley Oral History Project will be another showcase for this new functionality.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Attending OSCON in San Jose, CA
I will be attending OSCON in San Jose, CA from July 20 to 24. If anybody is also attending or lives in the area and is interested in setting up an MDID Birds of a Feather session, please comment below or email mdid@jmu.edu.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Mid-Atlantic Chapter meeting report
The VRA Mid-Atlantic Chapter met at James Madison University, Harrisonburg VA on Friday, May 29, 2009. The meeting report is now available.
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