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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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.

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!

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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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!

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.

VRA 2009 MDID Users Group Presentation

Here is the presentation from last week's MDID Users Group at the VRA conference in Toronto. Session notes will follow soon.

VRA 2009 MDID Users Group

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How do you search?

Finding content is one of the biggest issues with any system.  We would like to hear from you how you search for images in your MDID installation, and also how you wish you could!

For example, do you mostly use the keyword field, or do you use more specific fields like title or creator?  Do you enter multiple words?  Do you prefer AND or OR searches, or need both?

Thank you for your input!

MDID Survey

We are currently running another MDID user survey. Please participate, even if you have completed past surveys. Thank you!

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.

MDID Project Update

This update was originally sent to the MDID users mailing list on Nov. 24, 2008.

We want to provide an update on the MDID project and give some details on our short-term plans.

MDID 2 development started in 2001 and was based on core design decisions that were relevant at the time but no longer support current needs. In addition, the user interface is falling behind expectations and does not support concepts such as bookmarking or simple access to open content.

Therefore we have decided to redesign MDID based on new requirements such as multimedia support, flexible metadata structures and access rights, customizable page layouts and designs, a full API, and more. We have chosen a new development platform that is completely Open Source, is supported on most operating systems, and provides us with significantly shorter development times. Overall it will be easier and faster to redesign MDID from the ground up than to add significant new features to the current version.

Our vision for this new version, MDID 3, is as follows:

• Allow students and faculty to manage, discover, and aggregate digital media for intuitive, flexible delivery and presentation;
• affirm our commitment to support the use of digital media in the JMU curriculum through ongoing MDID development; and
• continue to promote adoption of MDID beyond JMU.
  

These principles will guide us as we redesign MDID:

• Build MDID 3 using Open Source software;
  
• share MDID 3 through an Open Source license;
  
• embrace Web 2.0 and open access;
  
• encourage content sharing between individuals, institutions and the public;
  
• leverage collective intelligence through comments, ratings and tagging; and
  
• engage students by allowing them to add, create, share and manage content.
  

Immediate goals for the project include an easy migration path from MDID 2; full compatibility with MDID 2 remote collections and the existing MDID 2 feature set; and implementation of the most commonly requested new features such as multimedia support, a new media viewer, simpler access controls, more powerful content discovery, more flexible cataloging, slideshow export to PowerPoint, and more.

Development on MDID 3 has already started. We have set ourselves an aggressive time line. We plan to release a working beta version of MDID 3, which we will showcase at the MDID Users Special Interest Group session during the VRA conference in Toronto in March 2009.

Shortly, we intend to set up an MDID development blog, which will provide regular updates and solicit feedback and contributions from the MDID user community.

Thank you,

The James Madison University MDID project team:

Andreas Knab, Lead Software Developer, Center for Instructional Technology
Kevin Hegg, Assistant Director of Systems and R&D, Center for
Instructional Technology
Tina Updike, Visual Resources Specialist, School of Art and Art History
Grover Saunders, Web Media Developer, Center for Instructional Technology
Mary Ann Chappell, Educational Technologies Librarian
Sarah Cheverton, Director, Center for Instructional Technology
Sandy Maxfield, Associate Dean, Libraries and Educational Technologies