Madison Digital Image Database

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Madison Digital Image Database
Small Tools Big Ideas Integrating Technologies
for Teaching Art and Art History

• FIT, October 7, 2005
• Andreas Knab, Christina Updike
• James Madison University

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Agenda

• Sharing and aggregating images
• Speeding up collection development
• Collaborating internationally
• Incorporating additional media types
• Involving students
• Focusing on content

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Sharing images

• Share image collections among institutions
• Share personal images among faculty members at
  one institution
• Possibility of sharing personal images among
  faculty members at different institutions

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Shared MDID collections
Otis Librarys Artists Books Madison Art
Collection
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Using images from different sources

• Faculty can complement official collection
  content with their own images
• Allows use of images from systems that are not
  accessible through MDID yet
• Images are optionally downloadable for use in
  other systems

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Direct links to content
Related images

• Data-mining slideshows allows new ways of finding
  images used alongside a given image
• Customers who bought this book also bought
  becomes Faculty who used this image also used

• Link to slideshows or individual records from
  other learning applications or web sites

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Speed up collection development

• Faculty can upload and suggest images to any
  collection
• Curators can review suggested faculty images and
  accept them into the collection
• Spread collection-building effort while retaining
  central control over image and cataloging data
  quality

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Supporting multiple languages

• Support for Unicode metadata allows cataloging in
  non-Latin alphabet languages
• Multilingual user interface
• Potential multilingual cataloging to build global
  collections supporting users local languages
• Multiple languages are a prerequisite for
  international collaboration

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Moving from images to media

• Support for resources of any file type
• Images (including archival versions)
• Videos
• Audio files
• Documents
• JPEG 2000 support
• Bigger images
• Better zooming capability

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Involving students

• Give students more access while protecting
  collection integrity
• Let students upload content in certain areas or
  build slideshows
• More granular access control
• Example Students can stream low quality video,
  faculty can download and show high quality video
  in classroom

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Focus on content

• Choice of delivery system should not determine
  the available content
• Choice of content should not determine the
  delivery system
• Integration of delivery systems and teaching
  tools is key

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Information

• Further Information
• Visit http//mdid.org/
• Email mdid_at_jmu.edu

• Authors
• Andreas KnabComputer Systems Engineerknab2ar_at_jmu
  .edu
• Christina UpdikeVisual Resources
  Specialistupdikecb_at_jmu.edu