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MDID USERS GROUPVRA 2015

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

MDID TEAM: NEW FACES

Jon Short• 2 years in Center for Instructional Technology

(CIT)

• Infrastructure + LMS, transitioning to MDID

Leighton Shank• Hired to CIT in September 2014

• Focus on MDID application development

MDID TEAM: OLD FACES

Grace Barth• Visual Resources Librarian, @ JMU since 2009

Andreas Knab• Former JMU employee and owner of vrcHost

• Has been with MDID since the beginning

Peter Hanley• MDID developer

• Instructional Support Center Manager at Temple University

PROJECTS IN THE PAST YEAR AT JMU

4-VA mini-grant to build MDID + Omeka connector

Article in Journal of Digital Media Management, vol. 3, no. 2

• “Innovating art history: The story of an open source project that transformed teaching with images in higher education”, Grace Barth and Kevin Hegg

MOST WANTED FEATURES

• Advanced search

• Metadata field management

• Mobile support

• Configurable “browse” options

• Easier duplication of presentations

MORE MOST WANTED FEATURES

• Search facets by term

• Packaged presentations with MediaViewer

• Thumbnail refresh when image is replaced/removed

• User-added tags

• Shared collections easier to use

PLANNED MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS + CLEAN UP

• Make it easy to install

• Upgrade underlying technology

• Make it extensible

• Clean user interface

• Mobile-friendly

WHAT’S IN IT FOR END USERS

• Clean interface

• Mobile compatibility

• Flashcard app?• Intuitive to use

WHAT’S IN IT FOR CURATORS

• Easier in-browser cataloging

• Simplified administrative tasks

• Add features via plug-ins

• Installation that doesn’t require IT

WHAT’S IN IT FOR DEVELOPERS

• Better development documentation

• Allow customization

• De-coupled dependencies

• Foster community development

• API-driven core

New Development

Custom Plugin:Ensemble Viewer Developed for Colgate University Integrates content from Ensemble Video

platform into MDID When special metadata fields are

available for a record, viewer is added to the page

User Authentication

Added support for new protocolsCentral Authentication Service (CAS)Shibboleth

New restriction possibilitiesOnly allow logins for members of specific

Shibboleth groups

Work/Image Records

Using Dublin Core to connect images to worksRelation.IsPartOf

Work/Image Records

ExampleRecord 1 (Work)

○ Identifier “ABC001”Record 2 (Image)

○ Identifier “ABC002”○ Relation.IsPartOf “ABC001”

Work record still has an image file attached – “Primary Image”

“Explore Works” interface

Experimental new user interface Very early stages “Responsive”

Support for desktops, tablets, mobile devices, etc.

Installable as an add-on to MDID3

“Explore Works” interface

Development supported by Archivision Planned rollout stages

1. Separate demo installation at vrcHost2. Archivision clients

○ Test with known content

3. All vrcHost hosted installations○ Test with known environment

4. Contribution back to Open Source

Miscellaneous

New restriction to control to which collections users can add personal images

Still in the works

Documentation project Copying metadata between records Getty Vocabulary integration

QUESTIONS?

THE END

THANK YOU!

Jon: shortjw@jmu.edu

Leighton: shanklt@jmu.edu

Grace: barthgl@jmu.edu

Andreas: info@vrchost.com

Peter: peter@temple.edu

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MDID Special Interest Group Meeting from