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MDID Users Group
MDID use at JMU
Art Education
• Heavily used in Art Criticism class
• To the right: a student’s final “art show” for Art Criticism last semester
Music
• Used to upload and share audio files of students practicing
Newtown Collection
• Public history prints
and photographs
acquired by art
history professor
• Available to the
public through MDID
• Used for series of
three public talks on
Urban Renewal in
Harrisonburg, VA
MDID at Other Schools
Testimonial from Colorado College
“Initially, as we began discussions of what database tool would best fit our needs, we researched many image database options. MDID3 became our first choice because of its ease of use, the capacity for it to meet nearly all of our curatorial and classroom presentation needs, and its cost was certainly a positive consideration over subscription options.” –Jan Schalk, Project Manager
Making installation simpler
Steve Tatum’s curator wiki
Shared Collections
Shared collections are live!
Getty Open Content
Download newest version of MDID3 from GitHub
Demo by Andreas
Securing funding from JMU
Approached School of Art, Design, and Art History and Center for Instructional Technology for funding
Secured end-of-year funding split between two departments
Experience with helping others
Lack of documentation
Lack of server administration experience
Lack of support from IT department
Complex installation procedure
Efforts to make installation easier
Reduce necessary configuration
Unbundle old libraries
Reduce external dependencies
Better step-by-step documentation
Architecture
Collection provider
No extra configuration necessary
Just create a user account and password
Works with any current version of MDID3
Collection consumer
Must use latest version of MDID3
Create a new shared collection by configuring remote URL, username and password
End user experience
Works like other federated searches
Flickr
ARTstor
Any keyword or faceted search will trigger a search of remote collections
Results are displayed on a separate screen
Current limitations
Search result displays thumbnails only
No pop-up preview dialog
Metadata fields must be mapped to Dublin Core at the collection provider for best results
Shared Collections
Shared Collections
Features sponsored by Archivision
Work/Image record distinction
Browse and search by work
Set master record for work
Copy metadata between records
Vocabulary lists
Integration with Getty Vocabulary Program
Migration tool updates
Better handling of unusual data during MDID2 to MDID3 migration
Field cleanup tool
Documentation project
Architecture
Using Pelican, a site generatorhttp://blog.getpelican.com/
Current status
Very early in development
How to contribute
Check out https://github.com/knabar/mdid-docs
Documentation Example
Documentation Example
Exporting metadata through Solr Admin Interface
http://localhost:8983/solr/demo/select?q=*&c=allcollections:7&rows=5&sort=id+asc&fl=title_t,identifier_t,creator_t,subject_t&wt=json
Sustainability
Challenges of hiring a programmer
Who here is using MDID3?
JMU hired vrcHost to develop “shared collections” and to fix a number of bugs
New features and bug fixes pushed back into the open source repository to benefit entire MDID community
A good model for other institutions to follow?
Any interest in Kickstarter-like projects for funding future development software development?
Other ideas?
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