http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/

Rick Loup – Multimedia Development

Andrew Bevan – User Support

Vivienne Carr – User Support

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

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

Jisc MediaHub

• Jisc eCollections content

• Feedback

• Service:

Search and explore

Bookmarks

Uploads

• Questions

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.

Poll

• Does the Jisc MediaHub service content look useful for your institution?

A. YesB. NoC. Not sureD. Would like to explore before responding!

Feedback opportunities

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

• Jisc Collections workshop: Focussed ‘workshop’ - 18th March in London, 10:30 – 15:30 Options for future direction of content Outcome – reshaped Jisc MediaHub to better reflect community

needs s.gibbens@jisc-collections.ac.uk

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.