Digital Images for Education Mediahub – a multimedia platform
Digital Images for Education
Mediahub – a multimedia platform
Agenda
10.30 – 10.40 Context
10.40 – 10.50 Sourcing multimedia content
10.50 – 11.05 Interface Functionality
11.05 – 11.25 Interface Design
11.25 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 11.40 Encouraging use
11.40 – 12.00 Exploring new models
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context(caren)
Current JISC funded image and film collections
– Digital Images for Education
– Newsfilm Online
– Film and Sound Online
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£2.75 million
56,000 still images
500 hours of film
25 years of UK history
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AP Archive
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Royal Geographical Society
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Imperial War Museum: War posters
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Design Archives, University of Brighton
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North Highland College
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ITN
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PYMCA
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Getty
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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GovEd
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MediaHub
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NFO – free content
FSOL – paid for content
DIE – paid for content
Portal to view other content
Images on demand – buy images and store them in mediahub
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Sourcing Multimedia Content
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Usefulness of understanding the context of users accessing collections:
Where do you start when looking for multimedia content? Answers please: (stating any special or good features on those websites)
Before you begin….
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Interface Functionality
Background
History of developing web interfaces for multimedia content back to 2002 –
– Film & Sound Online (originally Education Media OnLine)
– Education Image Gallery
– NewsFilm Online
Each process involved community consultation
Experience built on now, with many of the same features
User comments on design and content often hard to get
Mediahub planning
Two way exchange –
– Show you a work-in-progress, and give a timeline for release
– Hear the features you would like to see
Our obligations -
– To cater for a variety of users and range of search preferences
– But need to get the on-screen balance of elements right
Undesigned layout (wireframe) for preview/comment…
– What do you think? Anything missing?
Functionality and tools
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Core MediaHubPlatform
Search & advanced
search
Browse & view
Authenticate & log a) UK
Federation b) IP
Manage links to external
collections
Manage existing JISC collections &
migrate content
Help, FAQ legal
notices
DefinitiveMultimediaResource Support for
different business models
Personalise layout & styles
Manage content collaborations
(group working)
Search via mobile device
(via VPN)
Images/Filmson-demand prototype
Collaborate: rate,RSS,tweet, group working
Stream video and sound
content
Geo-tagged spoken term
detection
DefinitiveMultimediaResource Support for
different business models
Personalise layout & styles
Manage content collaborations
(group working)
Search via mobile device
(via VPN)
Images/Filmson-demand prototype
Collaborate: rate,RSS,tweet, group working
Stream video and sound
content
Geo-tagged spoken term
detection
EnhancedSearch & Content
Context-related search
(event linking)
Manage categories (by subject)
Manage new JISC collections & user contributions
Geo-related search & display
Add content (user-
contributed)
EnhancedSearch & Content
Context-related search
(event linking)
Manage categories (by subject)
Manage new JISC collections & user contributions
Geo-related search & display
Add content (user-
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ExpandedCollectionDelivery Platform
Take down comments & tags
myHub (Manage favourites &
folders)
Browse top ten statistics: views, links, downloads
Vote on topical question
Collaborate: comment, email,
tag
Images/Films on-demand
scoping
Future service scoping
ExpandedCollectionDelivery Platform
Take down comments & tags
myHub (Manage favourites &
folders)
Browse top ten statistics: views, links, downloads
Vote on topical question
Collaborate: comment, email,
tag
Images/Films on-demand
scoping
Future service scoping
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Interface Design
More of what you might expect…..
Earlier focus group (Edinburgh College of Art, December 2009) helped inform initial development (lead by in-house designer)
Approach - based on user-centered design principles considering the tasks, goals and experience of the user.
One clear finding – simple Google-like search Inconclusive on other preferences, although Search by Subject
used by some. Search by Place not rated as so useful.
Timeline, no consensus - A useful feature for you? Preferred designs?
http://edina.ac.uk/dev/jackieclark/multimedia/views-testing.html http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/inspire-me
Comments
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encouraging use(caren)
Encouraging use
How are images and film currently used as a teacher / librarian / student / researcher?
– Can you describe a use case?
How can we best provide you with tools to help embed the use of the content?
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exploring new models(caren and anna)
Business Models
Annual Subscription Model
Institution pays annual subscription fee
All staff and students have free access to all the content
or
Project Subscription
Lecturer requires access to MediaHub for a specific project
Ask library to subscribe for one month and during that month, all institution has access
Download images / film required
Pay per download Model
Institution signs in to Mediahub using authentication
All users have free access to view all the content in MediaHub online
When anyone downloads an image / film the institution is charged a set fee
No matter how many downloads, the institution will not pay more than the annual subscription fee
If a learning material is created and placed in JORUM / MediaHub, institution gets a discount at end of year
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Images and Film on Demand
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