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New case study highlights improvements in using online archive content

Posted by Tim O'Riordan on Tuesday 09 April 2013
Tags: case studies | digital collections | teaching |

Our case study looks at how learners are developing their knowledge of history and online resources using newsfilm hosted by JISC MediaHub. We explore two modules that use this JISC eCollections service to examine the usefulness of news reports in the study of historical subjects. With access to more than 50,000 digital video newsfilm items, students consider impartiality and different styles of reporting through analysing and evaluating news media reports.

Currently over 200 HE/FE institutions subscribe to JISC MediaHub, allowing their staff and students to view and download more than 3,500 hours of digital image, video and audio items. As part of its ongoing improvements programme, the service has added new bookmarking, tagging and commenting features, enabling users to more easily collect and manage items of interest to them. Searching has also been improved with many new functions, including ‘explore by place’.

If your institution isn’t subscribed, you can’t view or download the video assets, but you can access newsfilm descriptions, shotlists and frame grabs - and watch example clips at: on the BUFVC ‘Newsfilm’ website. To find out how to subscribe, see JISC Collections’ Agreements website.

The BUFVC’s new AV Citation guidelines cover the whole range of moving image and sound objects including: film, TV and radio programmes, DVD extras, games, online clips, trailers, adverts, amateur footage, archival material, podcasts, and DVD study materials. They provide straightforward referencing rules that make it much easier for students and researchers to quote time-based content and aids the discovery, use and re-use of av materials - for example, archive newsfilm hosted by JISC MediaHub.

• Top Tips for Photography

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Thursday 28 March 2013
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  The typical digital camera is highly automated and can enable novices to produce usable images with the minimum of effort. However, despite the excellent technology cameras often fail to give good, repeatable results.

• Digital Agenda for Europe survey

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 13 March 2013
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  DG Connect hopes to make everybody in Europe digital. 

• Webinar disseminating the developing digital literacies projects

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 13 March 2013
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  Each webinar will last up to an hour and will discuss an aspect of the programme’s work. The webinars are free and open to all. Sign up.

• Using SVG image file format

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 12 March 2013
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  SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) has been around since 2001. It uses XML to display the image within a browser which gives it some interesting properties that we leverage. Effectively the browser renders SVG images "on the fly" (coordinates and instructions), enabling us to view the image in all modern browsers (Google chrome, Firefox, safari and Internet explorer 9+) including smartphones and tablet computers.

• National Recording Preservation Plan

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 20 February 2013
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  The plan is the result of over a decade of work by both the Library and National Recording Preservation board, comprising of 32 recommendations, both short and long term. The recommendations within the plan include a national discography, university based degree programs in audio archiving and an audio-preservation resource directory.

• First filming shoot through the eyes of an intern

  Posted by Sophie Allen on Thursday 07 February 2013
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  As a new intern at JISC Digital Media with a fair but limited amount of knowledge and experience of filmmaking, an opportunity recently arose to gain more of both. So last Thursday, after frantically attempting to dig my car out of what looked like the result of a small avalanche after the recent snowfall, I accompanied JISC Digital Media video advisor Steve to a local house where filming was to take place. The filming in question, was of actors performing a series of good and bad interview scenarios and techniques for medical students at the University of Bristol.

• Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content

  Posted by Chris Roberts on Wednesday 30 January 2013
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  JISC and Ithaki S+R release new report "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content".

   

• New top tips for video editing guide

  Posted by Tim O'Riordan on Tuesday 29 January 2013
  Tags: editing | video |

  Today we'd like to share with you our new guide: 'Top Tips for Video Editing'.

• Closed due to adverse weather conditions

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 18 January 2013
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  Please note that we will be closed on Friday  18th January from noon due to the poor weather conditions. 

• Announcing the MediaMosa Foundation

  Posted by Steve Hull on Friday 11 January 2013
  Tags: audio | open source | video |

  Today sees the creation of the MediaMosa Foundation, an organisation to oversee the continued development and promotion of MediaMosa.

• JISC Digital Media - Now in 3D!

  Posted by Stephen Gray on Wednesday 12 December 2012
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  This week saw the long awaited two-day conference '3D Scanning: Artefacts from the past, for the future', organised by Dr Phillip Lindley and hosted by Cambridge University.

• Free Augmented Reality webinar

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 10 December 2012
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  JISC Advance are hosting a free online webinar session on Wednesday 19th December about using augmented reality to develop new materials.