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Mediahub: developing the definitive academic video, image and sound resource edina.ac.uk/multimedia/ Andrew Bevan

Mediahub: developing the definitive academic video, image and sound resource http://edina.ac.uk/multimedia/ Andrew Bevan. Outline. Current EDINA Multimedia services Mediahub content Mediahub – new service in preparation Development plans. EDINA.

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Mediahub: developing the definitive academic video, image and sound resource edina.ac.uk/multimedia/ Andrew Bevan

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  1. Mediahub:developing the definitive academic video, image and sound resourcehttp://edina.ac.uk/multimedia/Andrew Bevan

  2. Outline • Current EDINA Multimedia services • Mediahub content • Mediahub – new service in preparation • Development plans

  3. EDINA • Academic (non-commercial) centre based at the University of Edinburgh • Runs a numbers of services of differing data types – Bibliographic, Geodata as well as Multimedia • Also develops R&D projects • Access usually by institutional licence and on-site IP recognition or off-campus UK federation login

  4. Current services Still images from the Digital Images for Education project – replaced the original Getty Images content 17 film and sound collections 3000 hours of news from ITN/Reuters archives, from1910 - 2007

  5. New service, launching early 2011 • To include the content of all current EDINA multimedia services, • plus searching the service will return results from external collections Mediahub – a multimedia platform

  6. Mediahub search results Mediahub searches and returns results for : • Digital Images for Education content: http://imagesforeducation.org.uk/ • 17 Film & Sound Online collections • ITN/Reuters archives • Additional collections, including: • Open collections • Restricted access collections

  7. 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 Covering 25 years of UK history Still images currently in Education Image Gallery All content will available to download from Mediahub

  8. AP Archive • News footage from associated Press, ABC News, Sky News • 9/11, Balkans conflict, 2003 war in Iraq

  9. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge • Wide range of images, including major artists e.g. Canaletto, Turner, Constable.

  10. Getty • Broad range of content covering political, cultural and social history • 8000 film clips • 12000 images

  11. GovEd • 15000 images from private archive by Francesco Troina; architecture, design, engineering, , media and travel/tourism

  12. Imperial War Museum: War posters • 3 collections of still images • Art of First World War, Art of Second World War. All main figures of British art in 20C represented • Proclamations – official instructions and statements at home and abroad

  13. ITN • 6300 film clips focusing on UK news coverage

  14. North Highland College • The Johnston Collection, dating from 1840 - 1979. The Johnston family were pioneers in photography; lived and worked in Caithness and Sutherland. • Subject matter was Highland life – politics, fishing industry, portraiture

  15. PYMCA • 5900 images of contemporary youth culture – changing fashions and lifestyles.

  16. Royal Geographical Society • 6500 images • Sketches from Livingstone’s Zambezi expedition • Mallory and Irvine leaving for final ascemt of Everest

  17. University of Brighton, Design archives • 4 collections: • British exhibitions e.g. Festival of Britain, 800 images • Posters ,500 images • Product design, 700 images • Retail and domestic spaces, 300 images

  18. ITN/Reuters content • 1910s to 2007 • 60,000 news stories • 25,000 ITN programme scripts • 3,000 hours of video footage • 19 collections e.g. Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News, ITV News, Gaumont Graphic, Reuters

  19. Other film and sound collections • IWF Knowledge and Media GmbHLogic 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 • Amber Films • Anglia Television Library • Biochemical Society • Culverhouse Classical Music • Digital Himalaya • Educational and Television Films Ltd • Healthcare Productions • Imperial War Museum

  20. Sample of additional collections searched

  21. Mediahub

  22. Mediahub – our collections

  23. Mediahub – other open collections

  24. Mediahub – other collections restricted

  25. Brief results page

  26. Full record page

  27. Issues • Obtaining licence permission • Standardising metadata • Developing interface (and technical back-end) • Agreeing design & features with partners • Engaging with user communities

  28. Next stages • January/February 2011 – continue to design and test the service. Do you want to help? • First stable release – March 2011 • Migration of existing subscribers • New subscribers • Summer 2011 –new features added for version 2 • Updates via the blog (and other channels) http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/ • Thank you for listening, …

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