Presented by Andrew Bevan as part of a workshop on Jisc multimedia resources.

1. Andrew Bevan
EDINA User Support

2. JISC MediaHub
 Service introduction
 Content
 Terms of use
 Interface features
 Forthcoming changes
 Feedback

3. 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

4. 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
 Part of JISC eCollections subscription service
 Including access to two resources provided by Mimas -
JISC Journal Archives and JISC Historic Books
 New features and content being added continuously
 For all information see: http
://www.jiscecollections.ac.uk/

5. 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.

6. External collections
• 625,000+ media items – equally wide-ranging

7. 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

8. JISC MediaHub Home page
• Search links at top right of each page
• Rotating selection of images in centre

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

10. Refine results options

11. 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)

12. Full record – view and download
Share via
email,
Facebook
Mark item, saves it in
My MediaHub

13. Embedded players – Audio/Video

14. 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:

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

16. Explore collection

17. 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

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

19. Advanced Search
• Combine keywords, subject terms and selected collections
• Live search results at bottom of page
Input keywords
and/or subjects
Select collections
to search
Select Number
collection of results
and/or media displayed
type here

20. My MediaHub

21. Future development
Check out the Roadmap section of the blog for updates:
http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/category/roadmap/

22. Feedback
• 2012-13 survey now in place in the service. Your feedback is
important!
• 74 responses to 2011-12 survey
 Results summarised and sent to JISC Monitoring Unit
• Advisory Board open to new members

23. 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
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