This document summarizes the Jisc MediaHub service, which provides access to over 150,000 multimedia resources from various collections for educational use in UK further and higher education. It includes television and film news clips, documentary films, images and audio related to history, science, medicine, art and more. Usage and feedback is collected through surveys and workshops. The service aims to improve search and discoverability as well as becoming more responsive to user needs over time.

1. 2014/15 Update
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. Sample search

18. Sample Record

19. Sample Record

20. Collecting and acting on Feedback
• Online survey linked from interface – Feb-June 2014:
https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/jiscmediahub/
• Also call for Case Studies – June 2014
• Jisc Collections workshop – March 2014:
 Focussed ‘workshop’ - Options for future-direction of content
 Outcome – reshaped Jisc MediaHub to better reflect community needs
• Updated Roadmap of planned developments
 Develop an App; improve search and discoverability etc
• Be more responsive, Jisc Co-Design process
 User Uploads of Images – Feb 2014
 User-created and shared Media Trails – 2015 (BUFVC enriched playlists too)

21. Social media
• Integrated into the interface – below the main image panel
• Pulling in tweets and blogposts, with links to YouTube channel
and Facebook page

22. Questions/Comments: now, today, whenever
Copyright: Think it Over!, Imperial War
Museum, 1916.
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