Overview

From Mdidwiki

The Madison Digital Image Database is an online image database and multimedia instructional system designed to create and show Internet-based lectures using digitized images.

The system permits instructors to remotely generate "slideshows", which can be annotated, placed online for student study, or archived for testing or future use.

Though many image databases provide flexible faculty and student access to online images, those systems generally do not provide a tool through which faculty can teach and students can learn. MDID brings the digital image and data library into the teaching and learning process, in and outside the classroom.

You can download the promotional MDID2 Flyer.

History

This is only a superficial timeline of the project:

1997: Development starts

1998: Implementation at James Madison University

October 2001: MDID made available for free download

2003: Mellon Foundation grant to support MDID 2 development

April 2004: MDID 2 demo site made public

July 2004: MDID 2 made available under an open source license

October 2006: IMLS National Leadership Grant to support MDID interoperability research and development