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

Image suggestion/moderation

Faculty uploads an image and

metadata into MDID

Faculty suggests image for inclusion

in a regular collection

Moderator reviews image

Image included in regular collection

Faculty improves image or metadata

Image rejected

Image suggestion/moderation

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

Questions?