Andreas Knab, Kevin Hegg, & Grover Saunders

Taking The “Repose” Out of RepositoryDiscover, Organize, and Experience Multimedia with MDID 3

A Little History

✤ Developed in response to new General Education program

✤ Started using MDID at JMU in 1998

✤ First public release 2001

✤ Work on MDID2 started in 2003

✤ MDID2 released under open source license in 2004

✤ Began work on MDID 3 in late 2008 in response to demand for other media types

What is MDID Now?

✤ MDID 3 is a digital media management system with sophisticated tools for discovering, aggregating, and presenting digital media in a wide variety of learning spaces.

✤ MDID 3 serves as a powerful platform for building innovative, web-based multimedia applications.

✤ MDID 3 at JMU currently holds close to 50,000 images, almost 14,000 videos and hundreds of audio files

✤ 346 people from about 200 institutions subscribe to the MDID user support list

Digital Media Hub

BlackboardWordPress Websites

Furious Flower SNP JMUtube

User Upload

CRASS

Relay

Other MDID

Flickr

NASA NIX

OVC

ePortfolios

MDID

MDID

Digital Hub

✤ Store Once, Deliver Everywhere

✤ Flexible cataloging: from “Just In Time” to carefully curated

✤ Modular storage, discovery and delivery mechanisms

✤ Content management tools

Infrastructure

✤ SAN

✤ Streaming Media Server

✤ Relay Server

✤ MDID Server(s)

✤ CRASS Recorders

MDID Architecture

MDID Collections

✤ JMU Collections

✤ Art and Art History (40,352)

✤ Faculty Images (4,804)

✤ Historic Photographs (1,740)

✤ JMU Photography (2,128)

✤ JMUtube (11,441)

✤ Madison Art (1,035)

✤ Online Video Collection (2,673)

✤ Shared Collections

✤ Art Images for College Teaching (2,918)

✤ Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (106)

✤ English Architecture (648)

✤ Historic Illustrations of Art & Architecture (297)

✤ Historic Posters (162)

✤ Tenniel Civil War Cartoons (55)

Who Uses MDID at JMU

✤ Academic Departments:

✤ Art and Art History✤ Biology

✤ Business

✤ Chemistry

✤ Communication Sciences and Disorders

✤ Communication Studies✤ Geography

✤ History

✤ Music

✤ Psychology

✤ And others

✤ Libraries and Educational Technologies:

✤ Media Resources✤ Special Collections

✤ Center for Instructional Technology

✤ Institute for Visual Studies

✤ Photography Services

✤ Madison Art Collection✤ Furious Flower Poetry Center

✤ Thomas Jefferson Foundation

✤ Mine Action Information Center

✤ Individual Upload

✤ Batch Upload

✤ CRASS

✤ Relay

✤ flickr

✤ NASA NIX

✤ Remote MDID

Adding Content

✤ MDID’s discovery tools

✤ Library catalog (LEO)

✤ EBSCO Discovery Interface (coming soon)

✤ Google for publicly accessible content

✤ Custom interfaces (for example, The Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection)

Discovering Content

MDID Discovery Interface

Library Catalog Discovery Interface

Library Catalog Discovery Interface

Library Catalog Discovery Interface

Delivering Content

MDID

BlackboardWordPress Websites

User Upload

CRASS

Relay

ARTstor

Flickr

NASA NIX

ePortfolios

Furious Flower SNP JMUtubeOVC MDID

Delivering Content

MDID

Furious Flower SNP JMUtube

User Upload

CRASS

Relay

ARTstor

Flickr

NASA NIX

OVC MDID

BlackboardWordPress WebsitesePortfolios

WordPress

Blackboard

Using Embed Code

Using Embed Code

MediaViewer

MediaViewer

MediaViewer

Podcasting

Controlling Access to Content

✤ Access controls work with embedded content

Controlling Access to Content

A Day in the Life

MDID

StudentsJMUtube

CRASS

WordPress Blog

ColleaguesSCOM

Collection

Why MDID?

✤ Customized to meet our needs

✤ Easy to add new functionality

✤ Easy to integrate with user directories and course enrollment feeds

✤ Continue to demonstrate our commitment to the open source movement while leveraging other open source technologies

✤ Widespread adoption of MDID across and beyond JMU

Q&A

✤ MDID Team:

✤ Andreas Knab

✤ Kevin Hegg

✤ Tina Updike

✤ Grover Saunders

✤ Sarah Cheverton

✤ Further Information

✤ http://mdid.org/

✤ http://support.mdid.org/

✤ mdid@jmu.edu