MDID.ORG

1. MDID Users Group
VRA Conference 2011
Minneapolis

2. Agenda
• Pilot at JMU
• Student projects
• MDID as an application platform
• Feature demonstrations
• Q&A

3. Pilot at JMU
• Started after several faculty training sessions
in late 2010/early 2011
• Running in parallel with MDID2
• Weekly data migration using MDID3 migration
tool
• Bug fixes and feature improvements based on
automated and user feedback

4. Student projects
• Students have greater access to features in
MDID3
• Faculty asked students to create new
slideshows using existing collection content
and uploading their own images
• About 180 students participated individually or
collaborated in groups

5. Sarah Brooks’ Student Projects

6. Sarah Brooks’ Student Projects

7. Laura Purvis’ Student Projects

8. Laura Purvis’ Student Projects

9. MDID as a Platform
• MDID3 serves as a platform for building web-
based multimedia applications
• Stores, manages and delivers data records and
media files
• Web developers author custom user interfaces

10. MDID as Platform: JMUtube

11. MDID as Platform: JMUtube

12. MDID as Platform: JMUtube

13. MDID as a Platform: Online Video Collection

14. MDID as a Platform: Shenandoah National Park Oral History

15. MDID as a Platform: Furious Flower

16. Demonstrations

17. External Content
• Flickr
• ARTstor
• NASA NIX

18. Delivering Content: Embed Code
• MDID3 provides HTML code for certain
viewers that can be copied and pasted into any
web site
• Protected content remains protected using
basic authentication

19. Demo: Embedding Video

20. Demo: Embedding Video

21. Demo: Embedding Video

22. Demo: Embedding Video

23. Demo: PowerPoint Export

24. Demo: Custom Viewers: Megazine

25. Demo: MediaViewer

26. Digital Media Hub
• MDID serves as JMU’s digital media
hub, supporting many disciplines using
different media types in different ways
• Store once, deliver everywhere
• Flexible cataloging – from “just in time” to fully
curated
• Modular storage, discovery and delivery
mechanisms
• Content management tools

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

28. Digital Media Hub

29. User Community
• MDID users contribute in different ways:
– Answering questions on mailing list
– Sharing additional documentation
– Submitting bug reports and fixes
– Sharing their collections
• We encourage everyone to participate in the
community

30. Visit Us at the Poster Session
• Sunday, March 27
8:00am -9:30am
Salon D

31. Q&A
following this session
in Director’s Row 3
(3rd floor)

32. Support
• MDID blog and wiki at http://mdid.org/
• MDID users list at
http://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/mdidusers-l.html
• MDID3 project on GitHub at
http://github.com/cit-jmu/rooibos/
• Email: mdid@jmu.edu

33. Project Team
• Andreas Knab Lead Software Developer, CIT
• Kevin Hegg Assistant Director, CIT
• Grover Saunders Web Media Developer, CIT
• Christina Updike Visual Resources Specialist, SAAH
• Grace Barth Visual Resources Assistant, SAAH
• Mary Ann Chappell Educational Tech. Librarian
• Sarah Cheverton Associate Dean, CIT

34. Information
• Authors:
– Kevin Hegg (heggkj@jmu.edu)
– Andreas Knab (knab2ar@jmu.edu)
– Christina Updike (updikecb@jmu.edu)
• Further Information:
– Visit http://mdid.org/
– Email mdid@jmu.edu