Current Developments
- MediaHub Mobile App (iOS – for iPhone/iPad)
- Filtering of Collections by ‘attribute’ e.g. exploring only Jisc-licensed content or only content that requires no login.
- Suggested formats for citing video, audio and images.
- Better resilience.
- Higher quality videos.
- Better usage statistics in line with COUNTER recommendations.
- HTML User guides.
- Better tool to upload images.
- Bulk uploading as well as existing uploading of individual images.
Under Exploration
- Searching in MediaHub for Multimedia content (images, video, sound) deposited in the Jorum Learning Objects Repository.
- MediaHub Mobile App for Android.
- Users can create and share their own Media Trails.
- Linking to related material in other online services.
- Institutional log in URLs (“targeted URLs�) that direct users via the preferred log in mechanism, direct to media items.
- Embedding video and audio content from MediaHub in web pages.
- Interoperability with reading list software.
- Users can contribute moving images and sound through an embedded YouTube
- Plugins for VLEs including Moodle.
- A Content-Development Strategy to meet user needs.
- Simplifying the login screen.
Delivered
January 2014
- Advanced Search: Updated interface, including sort by proximity
- Users can contribute content
- Crowd-sourcing metadata
- Zoom tool for images
April 2013
- Simpler classification of collection types
- Advanced Search: time/date, people
- My MediaHub: bookmarking, commenting, tagging
September 2012
- Explore by Place
- Embedding of MediaHub search into your website
August 2012
- Explore Newsfilm
December 2011
- Explore by Learning Materials: now including Reviews
- Â Interactive Guided Tour accessible via the Help page.
- New metadata and better display of data on Full Record Page
- Improved Display of Brief Records Page
October 2011
- Personal preferences in My MediaHub
- Combining and re-running previous searches in My MediaHub
- “Show all� similar and recently viewed items
- Searches that match any one or more words
- Help guides
August 2011
- Advanced Search: title/description, subject, media type, collection and collection type indexes
- Most Popular: Items, searches
- My MediaHub: search history, recently viewed items, marked items
- Sharing and social networking via external services such as Twitter
- Machine-to-machine interface: SRU and OAI-PMH
June 2011
- Explore by Subject
- Explore by Collection
- Explore by Time