Jisc MediaHub is a service that provides access to over 150,000 copyright-cleared multimedia resources for UK further and higher education. It includes archival video, images, and audio from over 40 collections on topics like history, science, medicine, art and design. Key collections covered include newsfilm, documentary films, classical music, images from museums. Users can search, filter, explore content by collection or subject, and view full metadata records.

1. Discovering what you can’t always
get from Google
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/
Andrew Bevan – EDINA User Support

2. What is EDINA?

3. 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
• FREE TO COLLEGES
http://www.jiscecollections.ac.uk/

4. 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.edi
na.ac.uk/collections/

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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.

17. Feedback opportunities
• Feedback survey in service:
https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/jiscmediahub/
• Jisc Collections workshop:
 Focussed ‘workshop’ - 18th March in London,
 Options for future-direction of content
 Outcome – reshaped Jisc MediaHub to better reflect community needs
• Also call for Case Studies – June 2014

18. 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.

19. Search
• more options…
• Restrict:
 media type,
 access type,
 Newsfilm only.

20. Results

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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

24. Explore by Place

25. Full record
• Play
• Download –
 Video: Windows Media,
Quick Time (some), Ogg
Theora
 Audio: AAC, WMA, Ogg
Vorbis
• Share
• Bookmark with tags

26. Full record
• Link to terms
of use
• Add comments
• View metadata
• Shotlist and
frame grabs
may be
available
• View similar
items

27. Bookmark
• Must be logged in
with institutional
login
• Edit any field
• Click on Suggested
tags, or your tags
• Click Submit

28. My MediaHub

29. Uploads
• Users can share images
• User Uploads collection

30. Uploads process
• 1 – Upload via Flickr
account or your
computer

31. Uploads process
• 2 – Edit to add a
Creative Commons
license and metadata

32. Uploads process
• 3 – Publish. Cannot publish until CC license selected.

33. Search widget
• Find the code in the About > Support area.

34. 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

35. Questions
Copyright: Think it Over!, Imperial War
Museum, 1916.