MDID Special Interest Group Meeting
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The document summarizes an MDID Special Interest Group meeting that provided updates on the MDID digital media management system. Key points included new features like an in-browser media viewer, offline presentation packages, PowerPoint export improvements, and upcoming work on better record pages and IIIF interoperability. The meeting also covered recent upgrades, demos of new capabilities, and discussions around the MDID community and support options.
MDID Special Interest Group Meeting
- 1. MDID Special Interest Group Meeting March 24, 2021 Presenter: Andreas Knab Sponsored by:
- 2. Welcome! ● Quick look back ● Current development ● Demos ● Q&A ● Thank you to everyone submitting questions, suggesting features, and offering to present
- 3. MDID Project ● MDID is a digital media management system with sophisticated tools for discovering, aggregating, and presenting digital media in a wide variety of learning spaces ● More information at https://www.mdid.org/ ● Not yet familiar with MDID? Contact me afterwards for a demo
- 5. New MediaViewer ● New in-browser viewer based on Mirador ● No longer requires any installation ● IIIF interoperability (more on this later)
- 6. Offline presentation packages ● Using new MediaViewer ● Launchers for Windows and MacOS ● No installation required
- 7. New PowerPoint presentation export ● Supports latest versions of PowerPoint ● Simplified design options (no more templates)
- 8. Field usage report ● Outputs list of collections and fields ● Easy conversion to Pivot table:
- 9. Upgrades ● Upgrades of underlying libraries ○ Python 3 ○ Django 1.11 (already outdated again)
- 10. In the works
- 11. Better record pages ● Include full interactive viewer of image
- 12. IIIF interoperability ● International Image Interoperability Framework ● https://iiif.io/ ● IIIF manifests for records and presentations ● Use MDID content in other IIIF consumers
- 13. Manifests ● Simple JSON format ● Easy to use in different applications
- 14. Demo
- 15. Python package ● Simplify installation and upgrade process ● Auto-generate necessary configuration files ● Demo
- 16. Further development ● Continued upgrades of underlying libraries ○ Upgrade Django to 2.2 for ongoing support until April 2022
- 17. MDID Community ● Listserv currently the only communication method between users ● Used only very infrequently ● Add or switch to different platform? ○ Discord ○ Slack ○ Facebook ○ …?
- 18. Discussion and Sharing ● Questions ● Suggestions ● Contributions
- 19. Thank you! ● Open Source Community ○ Download MDID at https://mdid.org/ ○ Join the listserv at https://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MDIDUSERS-L ● Commercial Support ○ Visit https://vrchost.com ○ Contact at [email protected] ● Preloaded Content ○ Archivision https://archivision.com ○ Saskia http://saskia.com ● Meet vrcHost at Community Partnership Hour, Thursday at noon CDT