New service: Jisc MediaHub

Page last modified on 24 October 2013, at 10:31 AM (initially posted on 7 September 2011)

Jisc MediaHub is a multimedia platform offering a wealth of digital image, video and audio collections accessible from a single interface.

The platform offers access to free-at-the-point-of-use images, video and audio content licensed for educational and research use, via an easy-to-use interface, cross-searching across all the collections and the ability to source content from a wide range of content-providers through a thumbnail and metadata search portal.

Jisc MediaHub is one of three platforms in the JISC eCollections service.

User Accountability: required (for medical-restrict service)

Shibboleth direct IdP link ("WAYFless URL"): http://edina.ac.uk/Login/mediahub?idp=xxx
(where xxx is the entity ID of your organisation's IdP)

This service is available for subscription to UK HE, FE & research councils through JISC Collections.

Notes:

1. The only attribute that an identity provider must release for its users to be able to access many services that are licensed for use by everyone at a particular organisation is eduPersonScopedAffiliation. This is a scoped attribute, which might, for example, have the value "member" in scope "uni.ac.uk", often written as:

It is used for the basic authorisation decision: does uni.ac.uk subscribe to the service in question? If so, the user is allowed access. The service provider will maintain its own list of which organisations (scopes) can access its service. For allowed organisations, the federation's Technical Recommendations for Participants indicate that, in HE/FE, users with scoped affiliation values from the set {member, student, staff, faculty, employee} are typically authorised to access content licensed on the basis of the JISC Model Licence, while {affiliate, alum} are not.

While a Shibboleth identity provider can generate eduPersonScopedAffiliation statically by setting the required value in attribute-resolver.xml, this should only be done when it is known that all users are authorised. Otherwise, the value can be picked up from your LDAP / Active Directory as described on the IdP setup page.

Users of other IdP software should check their documentation.

2. Many services can make use of the eduPersonTargetedID attribute. This is a persistent opaque identifier, which enables service personalisation (remembering data about a user over different login sessions) without the service provider knowing who the user is. If the identity provider supplies the eduPersonTargetedID attribute, the session is treated similarly to an Athens personal account. Otherwise, the service's personalisation features (e.g., saved searches) may be disabled, though the service will still function in the same way as with Athens shared accounts. With some services (e.g., Zetoc Alert) this attribute is mandatory. If so, it is marked as "Required/Yes" in the table in Attribute Usage.

For a Shibboleth IdP, generation of eduPersonTargetedID in attribute-resolver.xml is described on the IdP setup page.

Release of eduPersonTargetedID by attribute-filter.xml is described further down the same page.

Users of other IdP software should check their documentation.

4. JISC MediaHub contains some restricted material not accessible to all users. Identity providers may release a particular eduPersonEntitlement value on behalf of individual users who should have access to this material.

The required value is "urn:mace:ac.uk:sdss.ac.uk:entitlement:emol.sdss.ac.uk:restricted". Please check your IdP's documentation for further details.

Additionally, a declaration by sub-licensees requiring access to medically restricted material must be completed. The declaration form can be found at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/mediahub-declaration