Mediahub: developing the definitive academic video, image and sound resource

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, …