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From Fair Use to Fair Trading Creating a Digital Image Matchmaking Commons. Collaborative collection building and sharing using MDID. Collaborative Collection Building. Contributors Faculty who only make small numbers of images available
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From Fair Use to Fair TradingCreating a Digital Image Matchmaking Commons Collaborative collection building and sharing using MDID
Collaborative Collection Building • Contributors • Faculty who only make small numbers of images available • Faculty who have whole collections, but no means of distributing them effectively and efficiently
Image suggestion/moderation • MDID supports an image suggestion and moderation feature • Contributors upload images they would like to contribute • Moderators verify quality and legality of image and accept or reject image • If accepted, image becomes available in a regular collection
Sharing collections in MDID • Any regular image collection in MDID can be shared with other MDID installations • Access rights set per remote user or public • Currently available collections advertised on wiki at http://mdid.org/
Issues with sharing collections • Restricted to MDID installations • Currently developing API to facilitate other software applications • Configuring access can be work intensive • If hosting institution adds, changes, or removes images, other institutions get changes immediately
Collaborative Collection Building • Currently only used within JMU and other institutions • Setup could be across institutions or even public
Possible Scenario • An organization hosts a central MDID installation • Anybody can upload and suggest images • A group of trusted moderators reviews suggestions and accepts images into collections • By image topic • By image and metadata quality
Possible Scenario • Collections are shared so any MDID institution can connect and use the images • Collections are public so non-MDID institutions can browse, search, and download through the web interface
Potential Issues • MDID is teaching oriented • Focus on large image files and basic cataloging data • Currently no support for work/image relations • Limited use for non-MDID institutions • Currently developing API to facilitate other software applications