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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?