JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Bright Interactive Asset Bank.
Read full advice document...This document looks at the ways you can use the photo sharing site Flickr and some of its associated tools and services to help organise a collection of images.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. We asked each of them the same set of questions, and the following is a list of those who have responded so far. Follow the links to find out more about each system.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Third Light Image Management System (IMS).
Read full advice document...The following paper seeks to provide background to some methods for describing images that may be deployed by those building shared image collections. While the emphasis is on describing digital still images, those developing collections in other multimedia formats - particularly video - may find some of the methods and research outlined here applicable.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from iBase Online Library and Asset Management.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from LogicMighty MediaLibrary.
Read full advice document...Wikis are websites that allow groups of users to collaborate on content creation. Although largely text-based, they can include images. This document looks at ways in which you might use wikis as a source of images for use in your own work. It also provides an overview of how wikis handle images for those who already use or are thinking of setting up a wiki.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from OCLC CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from FotoWare FotoWeb.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Daydream FocusOPEN.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from House of Images HPAC.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from LogicMighty PhotoLibrary.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from KE EMu.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from exeGesIS LibraryLink.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Willoughby MIMSY XG.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Picdar Media Mogul.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from ModesXML.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Greenstone.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Gallery Systems TMS (The Museum System).
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Cerious ThumbsPlus.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Extensis Portfolio.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Zetcom MuseumPlus.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Innovative Millennium.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Madison Digital Image Database (MDID).
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Luna Imaging Insight Software Suite.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from imgSeek.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from IMatch Digital Image Management Solution.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Gallery.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Gallery Systems EmbARK.
Read full advice document...It can be a daunting task choosing a system for managing an image collection - especially if you intend to use it to share your collection with colleagues or the wider world via the Web. As the companion paper to this indicates, there are a very wide variety of options (see Systems for Managing Digital Media Collections). You will probably find it useful to read that paper before you read this one.
Read full advice document...How the collection digitised its documents and photographs.
Read full advice document...Your choice of background for a presentation or website is an important part of the design process. A poor choice of background colour combined with conflicting coloured text or image can render a page unreadable.
Read full advice document...This short case study looks at how the newly established History of Art department at University College Cork went about building a collection of images to support its teaching. Although it would have preferred to create an all-digital collection, the constraints of time, money and copyright led the department to take a hybrid approach, using a mix of formats, drawn from several different sources.
Read full advice document...Staffordshire Past Track is a web-based multimedia archive related to the history and cultural heritage of Staffordshire. The bulk of the collection is comprised of photographic or printed images from the past 150 years. Noteworthy features of the Past Track project are its bespoke content management system and a user interface that provides, among other functions, map-based searching, an image zoom facility, and user-annotated albums.
Read full advice document...A brief guide to using images in educational materials.
Read full advice document...When producing educational video for use on the web it is important to communicate clearly with your target audience. If your material is to be of use to the deaf community or viewers with hearing difficulties, there are a number of options: add subtitles or closed captions or an overlaid sign language interpreter who interprets spoken information in visual form. British Sign Language is the first language of over 70,000 people in the UK but many other sign languages exist internationally. This advice document looks at the practical aspects of adding a sign language interpreter to video delivered via the web.
Read full advice document...We introduce a number of screen recording software options for capturing moving image and audio activity on a computer screen.
Read full advice document...Providing a textual representation of the audio content of a video program can be time consuming, but for some users it can prove to be invaluable. Not only does captioning help meet W3C requirement by facilitating access for people who have hearing impairments, it also helps: users who have no audio playback hardware; mobile users who are sited in a quiet area (such as a library) and those without proper audio codecs installed on their machines. This short paper takes a practical look at how to add subtitles to a Flash video file for online delivery. This is only one method of many but is perhaps the most straightforward and quickest for beginners.
Read full advice document...Why choose a video podcast over a progressive download? Or embedded a video rather than provide a video stream? This advice document looks at a selection of different technologies which can be used to deliver digital video online. Strengths and weaknesses of different delivery methods are examined to find out why one method might be chosen over another. This document is aimed at individuals or institutions with video content which they wish to share with users via the Internet.
Read full advice document...Audiovisual material provides a rich medium for teaching and learning. Video can effectively communicate complex information to a student and, if used creatively, can become a powerful expressive tool. This short paper looks at some potential benefits and challenges associated with using video materials in teaching and learning.
Read full advice document...A guide to the creation and use of AAC compressed audio resources. AAC is the successor to the popular MP3 format, and this document explains its advantages over MP3, as well as its place within the wider MPEG-4 media family.
Read full advice document...A guide to the creation, manipulation and use of audio flies in the popular MP3 format, including a close look at the many audio and metadata options which MP3 offers, and its use within teaching and learning.
Read full advice document...This paper discusses the considerations needed when planning a workflow for digitisation. It outlines some of the preparation needed when creating a workflow and precepts that need to be incorporated. The paper then offers an example generic workflow for digitising open-reel audiotapes onto a computer hard drive system.
Read full advice document...This advice document aims to provide a comprehensive look at the various choices the developer of multimedia collections has in terms of metadata standards and the principles behind using them. It attempts to provide a synopsis of general metadata trends, a) in usage for audio, moving and still image format types; b) in specific areas of practice such as museums, archives, libraries and education; and, c) in various activities and tasks such as preservation, interoperability and resource discovery. For an overview of the whole series of papers, and an introduction to the metadata issues discussed here, please see An Introduction to Metadata.
Read full advice document...This document looks at the ways teaching presentations can be distributed to their end users. While there is a choice of presentation programs, Microsoft PowerPoint is the dominant application and will therefore be the main tool covered in this paper.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from The Digital Asset Lab MediaFiler.
Read full advice document...JISC Digital Media has surveyed a range of image management software developers to gather specific information about their systems. These are the responses from Papermule DAM & Workflow Engine.
Read full advice document...This article provides an overview of a web service for uploading, embedding and sharing presentations called SlideShare. After a description of the features available we will look at its uses for teaching and learning.
Read full advice document...This paper looks at the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a digital collection. It takes a general view of facilitating effective access to a digital resource and then examines more closely the issues of usability and then accessibility. It is intended to be of use to collection managers wishing to grant access to a digital resource.
Read full advice document...The people at Dane-Elec have come up with a simple and inexpensive way to provide secure access to data anywhere on the Internet.
Read blog entry...The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has recently released a new media player which they claim meets the “highest level of accessibility”.
Read blog entry...Tuesday the 7th of December 2010 sees JISC Digital Media launch the 12 Days of JISC Digital Media Christmas, a very lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek series of videos.
Read blog entry...Last week I attended a really inspiring day run by the Engaging Students Through In-Class Technology (ESTICT) SIG Steering Group and hosted by the University of Bath.
Read blog entry...We've just released a freshly updated version of our advice document Using Flickr to Organise a Collection of Images.
Read blog entry...Recent events have pitched Adobe against Apple in an online video standards stand-off. This has made it difficult for those responsible for online video delivery, finding themselves having to take a side and make a some very difficult decisions.
Read blog entry...Vinyl records. Remember them?
Read blog entry...Over at Techcrunch, Michael Seibel of Justin.tv highlights several problems with live video on the web.

Over at David Hopkins e-Learning blog is a handy 'how-to' for adding YouTube videos within PowerPoint.
Read blog entry...A really handy little application I find myself constantly using is Switch, a free audio file encoder which can singularly and batch convert files from pretty much any format to, well, pretty much any other format, with complete control over internal settings.
Read blog entry...We have just published our completely updated advice documents on metadata.
Read blog entry...We've just released three newly updated documents in the Still images advice section.
Read blog entry...S3FM is a simple facility that lets anyone create their own Web-based radio station.
Read blog entry...Last week the BBC hosted the presentation of the work of SEMEDIA (Search Environments for Media), a project co-funded by the European Union. SEMEDIA are a group of research institutes both private and public, who have taken on the challenge of meeting user needs.
Read blog entry...First impressions of the Voice Memo function in the new v3.0 iPhone software and comparison with an equivalent existing utility.
Read blog entry...We have just released our advice document that will introduce you to the Quandary interactive decision software.
Read blog entry...We have just revised our Metadata Standards and Interoperability advice paper.
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