Digital Images for Education Mediahub – a multimedia platform

Digital Images for Education

Mediahub – a multimedia platform

Agenda

10.30 – 10.40 Context

10.40 – 10.50 Sourcing multimedia content

10.50 – 11.05 Interface Functionality

11.05 – 11.25 Interface Design

11.25 – 11.30 Break

11.30 – 11.40 Encouraging use

11.40 – 12.00 Exploring new models

Digital Images for Education Slide 2


context(caren)

Current JISC funded image and film collections

– Digital Images for Education

– Newsfilm Online

– Film and Sound Online

Digital Images for Education

£2.75 million

56,000 still images

500 hours of film

25 years of UK history


AP Archive


Royal Geographical Society


Imperial War Museum: War posters


Design Archives, University of Brighton


North Highland College


ITN


PYMCA


Getty


Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge


GovEd


MediaHub


NFO – free content

FSOL – paid for content

DIE – paid for content

Portal to view other content

Images on demand – buy images and store them in mediahub


Sourcing Multimedia Content


Usefulness of understanding the context of users accessing collections:

Where do you start when looking for multimedia content? Answers please: (stating any special or good features on those websites)

Before you begin….


Interface Functionality

Background

History of developing web interfaces for multimedia content back to 2002 –

– Film & Sound Online (originally Education Media OnLine)

– Education Image Gallery

– NewsFilm Online

Each process involved community consultation

Experience built on now, with many of the same features

User comments on design and content often hard to get

Mediahub planning

Two way exchange –

– Show you a work-in-progress, and give a timeline for release

– Hear the features you would like to see

Our obligations -

– To cater for a variety of users and range of search preferences

– But need to get the on-screen balance of elements right

Undesigned layout (wireframe) for preview/comment…

– What do you think? Anything missing?

Functionality and tools


Core MediaHubPlatform

Search & advanced

search

Browse & view

Authenticate & log a) UK

Federation b) IP

Manage links to external

collections

Manage existing JISC collections &

migrate content

Help, FAQ legal

notices

DefinitiveMultimediaResource Support for

different business models

Personalise layout & styles

Manage content collaborations

(group working)

Search via mobile device

(via VPN)

Images/Filmson-demand prototype

Collaborate: rate,RSS,tweet, group working

Stream video and sound

content

Geo-tagged spoken term

detection

DefinitiveMultimediaResource Support for

different business models

Personalise layout & styles

Manage content collaborations

(group working)

Search via mobile device

(via VPN)

Images/Filmson-demand prototype

Collaborate: rate,RSS,tweet, group working

Stream video and sound

content

Geo-tagged spoken term

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EnhancedSearch & Content

Context-related search

(event linking)

Manage categories (by subject)

Manage new JISC collections & user contributions

Geo-related search & display

Add content (user-

contributed)

EnhancedSearch & Content

Context-related search

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Manage categories (by subject)

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ExpandedCollectionDelivery Platform

Take down comments & tags

myHub (Manage favourites &

folders)

Browse top ten statistics: views, links, downloads

Vote on topical question

Collaborate: comment, email,

tag

Images/Films on-demand

scoping

Future service scoping

ExpandedCollectionDelivery Platform

Take down comments & tags

myHub (Manage favourites &

folders)

Browse top ten statistics: views, links, downloads

Vote on topical question

Collaborate: comment, email,

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Images/Films on-demand

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Future service scoping


Interface Design

More of what you might expect…..

Earlier focus group (Edinburgh College of Art, December 2009) helped inform initial development (lead by in-house designer)

Approach - based on user-centered design principles considering the tasks, goals and experience of the user.

One clear finding – simple Google-like search Inconclusive on other preferences, although Search by Subject

used by some. Search by Place not rated as so useful.

Timeline, no consensus - A useful feature for you? Preferred designs?

http://edina.ac.uk/dev/jackieclark/multimedia/views-testing.html http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/inspire-me

Comments


encouraging use(caren)

Encouraging use

How are images and film currently used as a teacher / librarian / student / researcher?

– Can you describe a use case?

How can we best provide you with tools to help embed the use of the content?



exploring new models(caren and anna)

Business Models

Annual Subscription Model

Institution pays annual subscription fee

All staff and students have free access to all the content

or

Project Subscription

Lecturer requires access to MediaHub for a specific project

Ask library to subscribe for one month and during that month, all institution has access

Download images / film required

Pay per download Model

Institution signs in to Mediahub using authentication

All users have free access to view all the content in MediaHub online

When anyone downloads an image / film the institution is charged a set fee

No matter how many downloads, the institution will not pay more than the annual subscription fee

If a learning material is created and placed in JORUM / MediaHub, institution gets a discount at end of year


Images and Film on Demand


Documents

Digital Images for Education Mediahub – a multimedia platform