mediahub: developing the definitive academic video, image and sound resource
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Mediahub: developing the definitive academic video, image and sound resource
http://edina.ac.uk/multimedia/
Andrew Bevan
Outline
1. Current EDINA Multimedia services
2. Mediahub content
3. Mediahub – new service in preparation
4. Development plans
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
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
Mediahub – a multimedia platform•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 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 collectionsRestricted access collections
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 images3 moving image collections – 500 hours of filmCovering 25 years of UK history
• Still images currently in Education Image Gallery
• All content will available to download from Mediahub
AP Archive
• News footage from associated Press, ABC News, Sky News
• 9/11, Balkans conflict, 2003 war in Iraq
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• Wide range of images, including major artists e.g. Canaletto, Turner, Constable.
Getty
• Broad range of content covering political, cultural and social history
• 8000 film clips
• 12000 images
GovEd
• 15000 images from private archive by Francesco Troina; architecture, design, engineering, , media and travel/tourism
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
ITN
• 6300 film clips focusing on UK news coverage
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
PYMCA
• 5900 images of contemporary youth culture – changing fashions and lifestyles.
Royal Geographical Society
• 6500 images • Sketches from
Livingstone’s Zambezi expedition
• Mallory and Irvine leaving for final ascemt of Everest
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
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
Other film and sound collections
• Amber Films
• Anglia Television Library
• Biochemical Society
• Culverhouse Classical Music
• Digital Himalaya
• Educational and Television Films Ltd
• Healthcare Productions
• Imperial War Museum
• IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH
Logic 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
Sample of additional collections searched
Mediahub
Mediahub – our collections
Mediahub – other open collections
Mediahub – other collections restricted
Brief results page
Full record page
Issues
• Obtaining licence permission• Standardising metadata • Developing interface (and technical back-
end)• Agreeing design & features with partners• Engaging with user communities
Next stages
• January/February 2011 – continue to design and test the service. Do you want to help?
• First stable release – March 2011Migration of existing subscribersNew 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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