Discover, Organize, and Experience Multimedia with MDID 3

1. Taking The “Repose”
Out of Repository
Discover, Organize, and Experience Multimedia with MDID 3
Andreas Knab, Kevin Hegg, & Grover Saunders

2. 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

3. 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

4. Digital Media Hub
WordPress Blackboard ePortfolios Websites
Furious Flower OVC SNP JMUtube MDID
Relay NASA NIX
CRASS Flickr
MDID
User Upload Other MDID

5. Digital Hub
✤ Store Once, Deliver Everywhere
✤ Flexible cataloging: from “Just In
Time” to carefully curated
✤ Modular storage, discovery and
delivery mechanisms
✤ Content management tools

6. Infrastructure
✤ SAN
✤ Streaming Media Server
✤ Relay Server
✤ MDID Server(s)
✤ CRASS Recorders

7. MDID Architecture

8. MDID Collections
✤ JMU Collections ✤ Shared Collections
✤ Art and Art History (40,352) ✤ Art Images for College Teaching (2,918)
✤ Faculty Images (4,804) ✤ Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (106)
✤ Historic Photographs (1,740) ✤ English Architecture (648)
✤ JMU Photography (2,128) ✤ Historic Illustrations of Art &
Architecture (297)
✤ JMUtube (11,441)
✤ Historic Posters (162)
✤ Madison Art (1,035)
✤ Tenniel Civil War Cartoons (55)
✤ Online Video Collection (2,673)

9. Who Uses MDID at JMU
✤ Academic Departments: ✤ Libraries and Educational Technologies:
✤ Art and Art History ✤ Media Resources
✤ Biology ✤ Special Collections
✤ Business ✤ Center for Instructional Technology
✤ Chemistry ✤ Institute for Visual Studies
✤ Communication Sciences and Disorders ✤ Photography Services
✤ Communication Studies ✤ Madison Art Collection
✤ Geography ✤ Furious Flower Poetry Center
✤ History ✤ Thomas Jefferson Foundation
✤ Music ✤ Mine Action Information Center
✤ Psychology
✤ And others

10. Adding Content
✤ Individual Upload
✤ Batch Upload
✤ CRASS
✤ Relay
✤ flickr
✤ NASA NIX
✤ Remote MDID

11. Discovering 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)

12. MDID Discovery Interface

13. Library Catalog Discovery Interface

14. Library Catalog Discovery Interface

15. Library Catalog Discovery Interface

16. Delivering Content
WordPress Blackboard ePortfolios Websites
Furious Flower OVC SNP JMUtube MDID
Relay NASA NIX
CRASS Flickr
MDID
User Upload ARTstor

21. Delivering Content
WordPress Blackboard ePortfolios Websites
Furious Flower OVC SNP JMUtube MDID
Relay NASA NIX
CRASS Flickr
MDID
User Upload ARTstor

22. WordPress

23. Blackboard

24. Using Embed Code

25. Using Embed Code

28. MediaViewer

29. MediaViewer

30. MediaViewer

31. Podcasting

32. Controlling Access to Content

33. Controlling Access to Content
✤ Access controls work with embedded content

34. A Day in the Life
CRASS
MDID
Students
JMUtube
Colleagues
WordPress SCOM
Blog Collection

35. 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

36. Q&A
✤ MDID Team: ✤ Further Information
✤ Andreas Knab ✤ http://mdid.org/
✤ Kevin Hegg ✤ http://support.mdid.org/
✤ Tina Updike ✤ mdid@jmu.edu
✤ Grover Saunders
✤ Sarah Cheverton