1 1 RSC Northern elearning, 8 June 2011 JISC MediaHub Andrew Bevan EDINA

2 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Presentation 1.JISC MediaHub – service development to date 2.JISC MediaHub content 3.Future developments inc. new collections

3 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 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 functions  Allow for addition of new content  Allow 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

4 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Existing JISC Multimedia services Still images from the Digital Images for Education project – replaced the original Getty Images content from August film and sound collections 3000 hours of news from ITN/Reuters archives, from Three services run separately since 2003, 2004 and 2008

5 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 plus VSM Portal….a JISC funded project to create a portal that searched the web for quality multimedia content

6 RSC Northern elearning meeting, 8 June 2011 = 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

7 RSC Northern elearning meeting, 8 June 2011

8 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Results page

9 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 More details on results page

10 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Filter options

11 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Full record – Inside MediaHub

12 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Access Search and browse – open functionality on the web Play/download - for subscribing institutions Floating box on clicking JISC MediaHub:

13 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 JISC eCollections Further recent development Creation of a new subscription service  of which JISC MediaHub is one of three platforms  Other two - JISC Journals Archive and JISC Historic Books Details from JISC Collections at collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Agreements/YearlyAgreements/ 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

14 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Content 1.JISC MediaHub – service development to date 2.JISC MediaHub content 3.Future developments inc. new collections

15 RSC Northern elearning meeting, 8 June 2011 Digital Images for Education project JISC project to provide education community with high-resolution images for download. Procurement commenced January 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:

16 RSC Northern elearning meeting, 8 June 2011 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 20 th century Sociology – PYMCA – still images of contemporary youth culture

17 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 ITN/Reuters content (from NFO) 1910s to ,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

18 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 Other film and sound collections (from FSOL) Amber Films Anglia Television Library Biochemical Society Culverhouse Classical MusicCulverhouse Classical Music Digital Himalaya Educational and Television Films Ltd Films of Scotland (to follow)Films of Scotland Healthcare Productions Imperial War Museum IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH Logic LaneIWF Knowledge and Media GmbH Logic Lane Performance Shakespeare Royal Mail Film Classics St George's Hospital Medical School CollectionSt George's Hospital Medical School Collection Sheffield University Learning Media Unit CollectionSheffield University Learning Media Unit Collection The Trials of Alger Hiss (1980) Wellcome Film

19 RSC Northern elearning meeting, 8 June 2011 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)

20 RSC Northern elearning meeting, 8 June 2011 Outside MediaHub (restricted) Scran (coming soon) British Library Archival Sound Recordings (also coming soon)

21 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June JISC MediaHub – service development to date 2.JISC MediaHub content 3.Future developments

22 RSC Northern elearning meeting, 8 June 2011 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 

23 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 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

24 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 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…

25 RSC Northern e-Learning Group, 8 June 2011 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 2 nd meeting, and will keep a close eye on implementation Thanks for your attention - any questions?