herd ahead: the promising future for pachyderm and the open-source community

Herd Ahead:The promising future for Pachyderm and the open-source community

but first...

In search of the perfect authoring tool - a personal history

Chapter 11987 (20 years ago)

Chapter 21997 (10 years ago)

ArtsConnectEd - Art Collector

Art Collector work extended to:• ArtStor’s

Offline Image Viewer

• Whitney Museum of Art’s Learning@Whitney

• Boston Museum of Fine Art’s Teacher’s Resource (Fall 2007)

• Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts ArtsConnectEd2 (Spring 2009)

Chapter 32007 (today)

Chapter 4The Future

“The Herd Ahead”

Pachyderm’s Future Open Source Community Contributions

•New Templates

•Accessibility

•Analytics

•New Formats

•Integration

•Pachyderm 2.10!

New Templates: Timeline, Multi-comparison, Dual ComparisonAvailable: October 2007Contributor: Minnesota Digital Library

New Templates: Full-screen SWF/JPEGAvailable: October 2007Contributor: Walters Art Museum

New Templates: Full-screen VideoAvailable: 2008Contributor: Seattle Art Museum

New Templates: Multi-image ExplorationAvailable: 2008Contributor: Seattle Art Museum

New Templates: STEVE taggerAvailable: For research and expansion

Another new idea...

Concept: Blog integrationDemonstration: SFMOMA

Accessibility

AccessibilityContributor: CDL - CSU

•508 Compliance

•Compatible with Screen Readers

•Video and audio captioning

•Font enlargement

•Contrast enhancement

Analytics

AnalyticsContributor: Seattle Art Museum/SFMOMA

•Data accessible to range of analytics software

•Unit usage

•Presentation screen access

•User path

•Session length

New publishing formats

New Formats: Touchscreen publicationAvailable: 2008Contributor: Seattle Art Museum

and maybe even...

Integration

New Functionality: IntegrationAvailable: 2008Contributors: SFMOMA, MIT, San Jose State

Pachyderm 2.10

Pachy 2.10 - Coming Soon• Installers for Windows, Mac and Linix

• Data migration tool

• Improved stability and performance

• ADA 508 Compliance

• Support for mid-ground images

• Standardized templates

• sub-titles

• embedded flv video support

• text support for special characters and html

• remove limits

• Documentation

Contribute to the Community

•Comment

•Support

•Write/Edit

•Test

•Fund

•Develop

PachyForgewww.pachyforge.org

PachyForge

PachyForgewww.pachyforge.org

A look at the Herd...

Profile of the herd•Installed servers Universities - 12

•Installed servers Museums - 12

•Pachyderm Institutions -Texas - 39

•Pachyderm Institutions - US - 804

•Pachyderm International - 47 in 13 countries