Digital Images for Education Mediahub – a multimedia platform

Agenda – Context – Sourcing multimedia content – Interface Functionality – Interface Design – Break – Encouraging use – Exploring new models Digital Images for Education Slide 2

Digital Images for Education Slide 3 context (caren)

Current JISC funded image and film collections –Digital Images for Education –Newsfilm Online –Film and Sound Online

Digital Images for Education £2.75 million 56,000 still images 500 hours of film 25 years of UK history Digital Images for Education Slide 5

AP Archive Digital Images for Education Slide 6

Royal Geographical Society Digital Images for Education Slide 7

Imperial War Museum: War posters Digital Images for Education Slide 8

Design Archives, University of Brighton Digital Images for Education Slide 9

North Highland College Digital Images for Education Slide 10

ITN Digital Images for Education Slide 11

PYMCA Digital Images for Education Slide 12

Getty Digital Images for Education Slide 13

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Digital Images for Education Slide 14

GovEd Digital Images for Education Slide 15

MediaHub Digital Images for Education Slide 16 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

Digital Images for Education Slide 17 Sourcing Multimedia Content

Digital Images for Education Slide 18  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….

Digital Images for Education Slide 19 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 Digital Images for Education Slide 23

Digital Images for Education Slide 24 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?

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Digital Images for Education Slide 27 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? Digital Images for Education Slide 28

Digital Images for Education Slide 29 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 Digital Images for Education Slide 30

Images and Film on Demand User logs into Mediahub and links to the ‘on demand’ collections’ User searches through collections & finds content that they would like User submits request for content Institution pays special discount fee for content Collection owner supplies content to MediaHub with metadata Content made available to all MediaHub users User can use the content for educational purposes and tag and edit the metadata Digital Images for Education Slide 31