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!
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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, 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, 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, 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.
Friday, May 8, 2009
VRA Mid-Atlantic Chapter meeting at JMU
The VRA Mid-Atlantic Chapter will meet at James Madison University, Harrisonburg VA on Friday, May 29, 2009.
This day-long chapter event "Engaging in New Technologies," facilitated by staff from the JMU Center for Instructional Technology, will introduce members to several tools that can be used by visual resources professionals to promote their services and create an online presence for their Visual Resources Centers. Hands on experience with tools such as Google forms/sites/groups, Blogger, Twitter and Flip cameras will be the focus of the day.
And we are offering a door prize – a free Flip Camera will be given away at the end of the workshop!
The meeting will be held in at the beautiful new East Campus Library at the Center for Instructional Technology. Parking is close by. There will be a catered lunch, along with hands-on workshops held in the morning and afternoon. The schedule for the day is:
9:30-10:00 a.m. Registration/coffee
10:00-12:30 p.m. Workshops
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch/Chapter business meeting
1:30-4:00 p.m. Workshops and wrap-up
The workshops will be free for Chapter members, VRA members who are not Mid-Atlantic Chapter members will pay $15 and receive the benefits of a Chapter membership; non VRA members will be charged $20; there will be a $15 charge for lunch for all attendees. We welcome you to invite colleagues who might be interested in the program. Please be sure to RSVP (see below)!
Our hosts at JMU have set up a Google Site with the plans for the day, which includes the agenda, a survey for attendees to fill out before the workshop, picture of the flip cam door prize, directions to JMU with map to parking lot and the east campus library, etc.: https://sites.google.com/site/vramidatlantic/Home
For those of you who may be considering staying overnight either Thursday or Friday here is the link to local lodging and dining facilities: http://www.jmu.edu/parents/accommodations.shtml
Please RSVP to Chapter Chair, Macie Hall: macie.hall@jhu.edu or 410-516-6165 by 5 PM (EDT) on Wednesday May 20.
This day-long chapter event "Engaging in New Technologies," facilitated by staff from the JMU Center for Instructional Technology, will introduce members to several tools that can be used by visual resources professionals to promote their services and create an online presence for their Visual Resources Centers. Hands on experience with tools such as Google forms/sites/groups, Blogger, Twitter and Flip cameras will be the focus of the day.
And we are offering a door prize – a free Flip Camera will be given away at the end of the workshop!
The meeting will be held in at the beautiful new East Campus Library at the Center for Instructional Technology. Parking is close by. There will be a catered lunch, along with hands-on workshops held in the morning and afternoon. The schedule for the day is:
9:30-10:00 a.m. Registration/coffee
10:00-12:30 p.m. Workshops
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch/Chapter business meeting
1:30-4:00 p.m. Workshops and wrap-up
The workshops will be free for Chapter members, VRA members who are not Mid-Atlantic Chapter members will pay $15 and receive the benefits of a Chapter membership; non VRA members will be charged $20; there will be a $15 charge for lunch for all attendees. We welcome you to invite colleagues who might be interested in the program. Please be sure to RSVP (see below)!
Our hosts at JMU have set up a Google Site with the plans for the day, which includes the agenda, a survey for attendees to fill out before the workshop, picture of the flip cam door prize, directions to JMU with map to parking lot and the east campus library, etc.: https://sites.google.com/site/vramidatlantic/Home
For those of you who may be considering staying overnight either Thursday or Friday here is the link to local lodging and dining facilities: http://www.jmu.edu/parents/accommodations.shtml
Please RSVP to Chapter Chair, Macie Hall: macie.hall@jhu.edu or 410-516-6165 by 5 PM (EDT) on Wednesday May 20.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
New content on demo site
The MDID 3 demo site has new content to match the images available on the older MDID 2 demo site.
At this point the only available functionality is a preview for the new explore feature. More features will be added to the demo as development progresses.Please note that in order to see any content, you have to log in using "demo" as both the username and password.
Since this is still an early version, you may run into bugs - please feel free to post comments in reply to this post, but hold off on reporting them via email (unless it sets your computer on fire or something of similar magnitude).
Edit 04/16: A login and password is no longer required.
At this point the only available functionality is a preview for the new explore feature. More features will be added to the demo as development progresses.Please note that in order to see any content, you have to log in using "demo" as both the username and password.
Since this is still an early version, you may run into bugs - please feel free to post comments in reply to this post, but hold off on reporting them via email (unless it sets your computer on fire or something of similar magnitude).
Edit 04/16: A login and password is no longer required.
Friday, April 10, 2009
MDID 3 Beta Test Sign-Up
We have received multiple offers from institutions to help out with the MDID 3 Beta Test later this year. To better be able to keep track of all interested people we set up a simple sign-up form here.
We will notify anybody who signed up once we are ready to start beta testing MDID 3.
We will notify anybody who signed up once we are ready to start beta testing MDID 3.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Development contract awarded
JMU has awarded a contract to TapHere! Technology, LLC from Haymarket, VA for software development services to create connectors between MDID and other services including ARTstor, Flickr, PowerPoint, and Blackboard.
This work is funded by an IMLS grant titled "Making Connections: Linking MDID to Other Digital Image Systems and Tools."
This work is funded by an IMLS grant titled "Making Connections: Linking MDID to Other Digital Image Systems and Tools."
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Getting ready for VRA
We are getting ready to leave for Toronto tomorrow. Thanks to all who submitted questions and participated in the user survey (which is still ongoing, so if you have not filled it in yet, please do so). The MDID users group session is Saturday morning at 9:00 am - see you then!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Welcome
On this blog you'll find updates and announcements regarding the Madison Digital Image Database project. While we will continue to send the most important news to the MDID users mailing list, you'll find more regular and detailed updates here.
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