Discovering what you can’t always get from Google

http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/

Andrew Bevan – EDINA User Support

What is EDINA?

What is Jisc MediaHub?

• Service for UK FE and HE• Released in 2011• Jisc-licensed multimedia

content, copyright-cleared for educational use

• Archival collections, rarely available on open web

• Plus search results for external multimedia collections

• Part of Jisc eCollections subscription service

• FREE TO COLLEGES

http://www.jiscecollections.ac.uk/

Jisc eCollections content

• Identified with triangle• 40+ collections• Records:

• 76000 + video• 57000 + images• 250 + audio

• All copyright-cleared for use in education

http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/collections/

TV news

• ITV News 1955-2007. Daily news programmes plus special broadcasts. 34,000+ records.

• Channel 4 News 1982-2007. Lunchtime, evening and special news. 6,500+ records.

• Channel 5 News 1997-2004.

• AP Archive.

Cinema news

• Gaumont Graphic, 1910-1934. Silent, sound from late 1920s. 8,087 records.

• Gaumont British News, 1934-1959. Bi-weekly newsreel. 2,476 records.

• British Paramount News, 1931-1957. 77 records.

War and propaganda

• Imperial War Museum film. WWI, WWII, Cold War, post-war reconstruction, Civil Defence, 1990s Balkan conflict. 50 hours.

• Imperial War Museum images. 3 collections: Art of First World War, Art of Second World War and a collection of proclamations. 4,000 + records.

War and propaganda

Educational and Television Films Ltd• 100 hours of film

from political left including USSR, China, Eastern Europe, Chile and Cuba. Legacy of Stanley Forman.

• Documentary footage of 1917 Russian Revolution, Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany, Vietnam War, Tibet and Beirut.

Documentary film

• Royal Mail Film Classics - documentary, public information, animation and industrial film, mainly 1930s and 1940s. 16 hours.

• Amber Films - independent documentaries from North-East, 1968-1980s. 39 records.

• Films of Scotland - documentaries on all aspects of Scotland. 1938-1982. 50 hours.

Science & Engineering

• IET.tv - aimed at engineering, highly regarded. Presentations and expert interviews from 2002-2012. 3,028 records.

• Biochemical Society – charts development of biochemistry in late 20th C. 36 records.

Medicine

• Wellcome Library – 500+ records from 1912 to 2000s. Evolution of medicine and health care.

• St George’s – 19 films on aspects of medical practice from leading UK medical school.

• Sheffield University – 47 hours on range of subjects, including medicine and bio-medical science.

Classical Music

Culverhouse Classical Music• 50 hours of classical

music and associated scores. Core repertoire plus rarer pieces from 17th to 20th centuries.

• Editing of media files permitted.

Art

Fitzwilliam Museum• 1,000 images from the

diverse collections of The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

• Includes major artists such as Canaletto, Turner, George Stubbs and John Constable.

Copyright: The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Last of England, Ford Madox Brown, 1860.

Design/architecture

• GovEd - 15,000 images by Francesco Troina, mainly covering architecture, design, engineering, media and travel and tourism.

• Design Archives – material from 1945-1985 from University of Brighton. Posters, product design images, retail images.

Contemporary images and video

• Getty moving images – 8,000 records covering cultural, social and political issues. 1920s -2000s (mostly 2000s).

• Getty still images - Nearly 12,000 images of political, cultural, and social history, covering the major events of recent world history.

• PYMCA – images of contemporary UK youth culture. 1960s-2000s.

Copyright: Getty Images, Focus On Jerusalem As Jewish New Year And Ramadan Coincide, 2007. See more at: http://Jiscmediahub.ac.uk/record/display/022-76739771#sthash.HEWUQo8A.dpuf

Social history

North Highland College • The Johnston Collection

is a historic photographic collection of national and European significance.

• 1840-1979. • Caithness and Sutherland

areas. • 10,000+ images.

Feedback opportunities

• Feedback survey in service: https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/jiscmediahub/

• Jisc Collections workshop: Focussed ‘workshop’ - 18th March in London, Options for future-direction of content Outcome – reshaped Jisc MediaHub to better reflect community needs

• Also call for Case Studies – June 2014

Search

• Search at top right of each screen. More than one word? Get results containing any of those words.

• Enclose phrase in double quotation marks

• Add +plus sign immediately before words to ensure they appear in results.

• Add -minus sign immediately before words to exclude from results.

Search

• more options…

• Restrict: media type, access type, Newsfilm only.

Results

Filter

• Filter and sort options available on left of results page.

• Date filter is for decade only – try advanced search for date range.

• Sort options at bottom left.

Advanced Search

In addition to media type and access type:• More specific keyword

search• Select collections• Date range search• Subject, genre,

duration, other fields• Sort options• ‘Live result’ box

Jisc MediaHub Explore

• Several Explore options available: Collection - can browse all content

from each collection, background and any reviews

Subject displays for Jisc eCollections content only.

Time creates a timeline based on your search term, that you can zoom and pan

Place is a Google map with location markers of Jisc eCollections content

Learning materials has case studies and reviews

Newsfilm – browse by subject or search by date range

Explore by Place

Full record

• Play• Download –

Video: Windows Media, Quick Time (some), Ogg Theora

Audio: AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis

• Share• Bookmark with tags

Full record

• Link to terms of use

• Add comments• View metadata• Shotlist and

frame grabs may be available

• View similar items

Bookmark

• Must be logged in with institutional login

• Edit any field• Click on Suggested

tags, or your tags• Click Submit

My MediaHub

Uploads

• Users can share images• User Uploads collection

Uploads process

• 1 – Upload via Flickr account or your computer

Uploads process

• 2 – Edit to add a Creative Commons license and metadata

Uploads process

• 3 – Publish. Cannot publish until CC license selected.

Search widget

• Find the code in the About > Support area.

Social media

Lots of posts highlighting content:• Nelson Mandela 1918-2013• JFK : Life and Death in the Media

Spotlight• Fantasy Speakers’ Corner• Our 20th Century Industrial Heritage• Legacy of the Genetic Codebreakers• Tutankhamun• Robert Burns – Man of the people• many more…

http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/

@Jiscmediahub

Questions

Copyright: Think it Over!, Imperial War Museum, 1916.