VRA 2021 Session SIG

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

4. Quick look back

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○ Django 1.11 (already outdated again)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 info@vrchost.com
● Preloaded Content
○ Archivision https://archivision.com
○ Saskia http://saskia.com
● Meet vrcHost at Community Partnership Hour, Thursday at noon CDT

20. Thank you!
Sponsored by: