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JISC MediaHub

Service introduction

Content

Terms of use

Interface features

Forthcoming changes

Feedback

Background

JISC funded data centre at University of Edinburgh

Range of online services and projects

Main activities: Reference & Multimedia, Maps & Data, Support for Developers & Librarians

JISC MediaHub

Released in 2011, as the merging of previous services Licensed content, copyright-cleared for educational use

Plus external collections of film, image and sound

‘Contemporary Archive’ of Multimedia but….

New features and content being added continuously

Part of JISC eCollections subscription service

Including access to two resources provided by Mimas -

JISC Journal Archives and JISC Historic Books

For all information see: http

://www.jiscecollections.ac.uk/

JISC MediaHub – hosted content, 130,000 items

TV news, Cinema newsreels and Documentaries

Contemporary images and video, Sound recordings

Multi-disciplinary coverage: Medicine, Science, Art & Design, Architecture, History etc.

External collections

• 625,000+ media items – equally wide-ranging

Terms of Use

Include in secure VLEs, Create local caches Download/Print metadata or assets Use in course materials or for promotion, training

Display without appropriate acknowledgement Alter, adapt, modify, or remove copyright Publish content on the open web Commercial or any other non-education purpose

External collections, check on linked websites

JISC MediaHub Home page

• Search links at top right of each page• Rotating selection of images in centre

Results page• Sorted by relevance• Refine/filter options on left• Hover over small images, pop-up box with more details

Refine results options

Individual results• Icon to denote collection type, e.g. hosted• Icon to denote media type, e.g. still image• Preview, mark, or click MORE (for full details)

Full record – view and download

Mark item, saves it in My MediaHub

Share via email, Facebook

Full Details etc

Embedded players – Audio/Video

External collections

When records are from collections external to JISC MediaHub, you will see a small image representing the media item, but you link to an external website where you may have to login to view/play/download the item:

JISC MediaHub Explore• Explore by Collection, Time, Subject or Advanced Search• Future options: Learning materials and Place

Explore collection

Explore timeline• Search with a keyword to create timeline• Zoom in to see more detail using control on right • Move along timeline using blue arrows on right

Explore Subject

• Browse the hosted content, under one of two classification schemes• Click on top level subject to start, click numbers to see results

Advanced Search

Number of matching results shown

Select collections to search

Input keywords and/or subjects

People, Date, Length limits

• Combine keywords, subject terms and selected collections• Live search results at bottom of page

My MediaHub

Future developmentPlanned for 2013

•Release of mobile app•Support inclusion of user-contributed content•Support for crowd-sourcing metadata•Advanced Search: Place•My MediaHub: explore group-working feature•New usage reports for sites and COUNTER multimedia report

New collections

•IET.tv – video series•Courtauld Institute – fine-art images

See the Roadmap section of the blog for updates: http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/category/roadmap/

JISC MediaHub blog, Twitter and Facebook

Recent posts to highlight content include:•Eric Hosbawm: Marxist Historian•Great JISC MediaHub Bake-off!•Pre-Raphaelites invading London•London 2012 ParalympicsOlympics •Soup cans and Spray cans•The Talented Mister Turing•Farewell to our Man from Mars: Ray Bradbury dies aged 91

@jiscmediahub