mdid 2 madison digital image database user group march 29, 2007 kevin hegg, andreas knab, christina...
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MDID 2
Madison Digital Image DatabaseUser Group
March 29, 2007Kevin Hegg, Andreas Knab, Christina Updike
James Madison University
VRA Conference 2007
Kansas City
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Agenda Developments since VRA Conference 2006 Upcoming features New features ImageViewer Guest speakers IMLS Grant Questions
• followed by “Ask the Experts” in Pavilion 1
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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
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Support
Continued support through email and mailing list• Over 700 responses on MDID users mailing list• Over 100 support requests to [email protected]
Hosted two online Q&A sessions Updated and expanded MDID wiki at
http://mdid.org/
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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
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Institutions connecting to shared collections
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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
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Upcoming features
ImageMagick integration• Will fix thumbnail quality problems
Improved browse and search result screens
New browse terms screen
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New browse terms screen
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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
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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.
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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.
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Guest speakers
Kevin FordColumbia College ChicagoMDID Usage Statistics
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Guest speakers
Mark PompeliaRice UniversityIRIS-Sakai-MDID integration
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
Content aggregators/gateways MDID as content consumer and—for
shareable collections—provider Examples
• MERLOT• OAIster• IMSL-DCC
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
Online, media-sharing communities MDID as content consumer Examples
• Flickr• PicasaWeb• Wikimedia Commons• YouTube
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
Course Management Systems MDID as content provider Examples
• ANGEL• Blackboard• Moodle• Sakai• WebCT
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IMLS Grant – Making Connections
Federated search engines MDID as content provider Examples
• Central Search• LibraryFind• MetaLib• Muse• OpenSiteSearch• WebFeat
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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IMLS Grant – MDID API
MDID Application
Core
Database File storageFull-text
index
Web Application
Simple Web Services*
BrowserImage Viewer
Image Manager
MDID API
MDID Tools
Specialized Interfaces^
Stand-aloneSpecialized Interfaces^
Third-party Applications, Repositories, Web Sites
Notes*should become obsolete^Specialized interfaces are programs or libraries that translate other protocols into MDID API calls and vice versa . Examples: OAI-ORE, OAI-PMH, SRW, etc.
Other MDID installations
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IMLS Grant – Interoperability DiagramBlackboard ARTstor
Flickr
MERLOT
YouTube
Luna Insight
CONTENTdm
Federated Searches
Fedora OAIsterAmerican Memory (LOC)
VUE
PowerPoint
Dspace
Sakai
RLG Online Databases
Core
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Proprietary Web ServicesProprietary API
XML Gateways
Z39.50 OAI-PMH
OSID
MD
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ppl
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MDID APIInternet Search Engines
SRW/SRU
Pachyderm
Proprietary API
Z39.50
DigiTool
Z39.50OSID
EmbARK
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IMLS Grant – Timeline
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Other News
Archivision now has an online MDID catalog and demo
CAMIO integration issues• CAMIO now owned by OCLC
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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: [email protected]
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Authors Kevin Hegg
Software [email protected]
Andreas KnabComputer Systems [email protected]
Christina UpdikeVisual Resources [email protected]
Further Information Visit http://mdid.org/ Email [email protected]
Information
Product and company names mentioned in this presentation may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Questions?
Also come to “Ask the Experts” session in Pavilion 1 immediately following this presentation
Please return your responses to theMDID User Survey