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JISC MediaHub
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/
Andrew BevanEDINA
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Presentation
1. JISC MediaHub – service development to date
2. JISC MediaHub content
3. Future developments inc. new collections
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Background• 2009 – EDINA proposed a single flexible platform
for multimedia content – key aims:Simplify search by allowing cross-search of existing
platforms from single location, with browse functionsAllow for addition of new contentAllow for removal of old content (e.g. Getty licence
for images in Education Image Gallery ended in 2010)Reduce ongoing running costs
• 2010 – funding agreed for EDINA and JISC Collections to develop new multimedia platform, in response to a formal request from JISC for a joint proposal
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Existing JISC Multimedia services
Still images from the Digital Images for
Education project – replaced the original Getty Images content
from August 201017 film
and sound collections
3000 hours of news from ITN/Reuters archives, from1910-2007
•Three services run separately since 2003, 2004 and 2008
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plus• VSM Portal….a JISC funded project to
create a portal that searched the web for quality multimedia content
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= JISC MediaHub – a new multimedia platform
• new service, first release April 2011
• includes the content of all existing JISC multimedia services
• plus returns results from external collections of multimedia content
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Results page
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More details on results page
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Filter options
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Full record – Inside MediaHub
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Access• Search and browse – open functionality on the
web• Play/download - for subscribing institutions• Floating box on clicking JISC MediaHub:
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JISC eCollections
• Further recent development• Creation of a new subscription service
of which JISC MediaHub is one of three platformsOther two - JISC Journals Archive and JISC Historic Books
• Details from JISC Collections at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Agreements/YearlyAgreements/1012
• Institutions subscribe to a single service, with two licence agreements, for access to all three platforms
• Three year agreement in the first instance 2011-14
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Content
1. JISC MediaHub – service development to date
2. JISC MediaHub content
3. Future developments inc. new collections
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Digital Images for Education project
• JISC project to provide education community with high-resolution images for download. Procurement commenced January 2009.
• Independent team of evaluators selected: 8 still image collections - 56,000 still images 3 moving image collections – 500 hours of film Content focussed on post-1985 UK history from both
commercial and community collections• Still images currently in Education Image Gallery
(until 31 July 2011)• All image/video/audio content is now available to
download from JISC MediaHub• Selection policy: http://imagesforeducation.org.uk/about/
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Digital Images for Education project
• Current events – still and moving images from Associated Press, Getty
• Art, history:• Still images from Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. • Imperial War Museum – 3 still images collections (Art of
First World War, Art of Second World War, proclamations)• Architecture – still images from GovED, originally from a
private archive• Geography – Royal Geographical Society, still images of
expeditions• Design – University of Brighton design archives, still images• Social history – North Highland College – still images of Highland life at
turn of 20th century• Sociology – PYMCA – still images of contemporary youth culture
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ITN/Reuters content (from NFO)
• 1910s to 2007• 3,000 hours of video footage• 19 collections e.g. Channel 4 News, Channel 5
News, ITV News, Gaumont Graphic, Reuters• 60,000 news stories• 25,000 ITN programme scripts
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Other film and sound collections (from FSOL)
• Amber Films
• Anglia Television Library
• Biochemical Society
• Culverhouse Classical Music
• Digital Himalaya
• Educational and Television Films Ltd
• Films of Scotland (to follow)
• Healthcare Productions • Imperial War Museum
• IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH Logic Lane
•Performance Shakespeare
•Royal Mail Film Classics
•St George's Hospital Medical School Collection
•Sheffield University Learning Media Unit Collection
•The Trials of Alger Hiss (1980)
•Wellcome Film
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Outside Mediahub (unrestricted)
• ADS Image Bank • ARKive• Culture Grid
• variety of regional content from the Collections Trust, funded by MLA
• First World War Poetry Digital Archive• Open Video Project • Wellcome Images• VADS (coming soon)
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Outside MediaHub (restricted)
•Scran (coming soon)•British Library Archival Sound Recordings•(also coming soon)
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1. JISC MediaHub – service development to date
2. JISC MediaHub content
3. Future developments
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Next stages
• Now to July 2011: Access for existing subscribers to existing JISC
multimedia services (EDINA handling migration of existing subscribers)
Usability testing by external agency and incremental changes
• August 2011 Next version of service officially launched New functions expected – including Advanced search,
Explore, Commenting/tagging• Updates via the blog and other announcements
http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
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Evolving collections policy
• Informed by JISC Collections community panels policy then agreed between EDINA, JISC and JISC
Collections
• Ensuring a good balance of content E.g. with sufficient scientific material; image/sound/video
content
• Representing interests of small and large collection owners prominent display of smaller collections APIs only for collection owners prepared to share metadata
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New Content Priorities• JISC Digitisation Phase 2 projects e.g.
Freeze Frame John Johnson Collection of Electronic Ephemera Pre-Raphaelite Resource Project
• VSM contributors to be included VADS Scran BL Archival Sound Recordings
• BFI in negotiation regarding ScreenOnline, InView and Colonial Film collections
• Managing proposed collection requests…
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Future options
• JISC Digging into Data Challenge JISC MediaHub hosted content offered as a dataset
• Activity in ‘Discovery’ environment potential user of the RDTF-generated open metadata m2m interface to some of the metadata in JISC MediaHub
• Contribution to Film & Sound Think Tank vision At June 2nd meeting, and will keep a close eye on
implementation
• Thanks for your attention - any questions?
