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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 mdid@jmu.edu

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

icat

ion

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: mdid@jmu.edu

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Authors Kevin Hegg

Software Engineerheggkj@jmu.edu

Andreas KnabComputer Systems Engineerknab2ar@jmu.edu

Christina UpdikeVisual Resources Specialistupdikecb@jmu.edu

Further Information Visit http://mdid.org/ Email mdid@jmu.edu

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