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 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

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

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

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