Licensed Media Hosting

The illumira licensed media hosting service enables libraries to host and stream licensed video content to faculty, staff and students from a comprehensive hosted media platform.

With illumira, libraries can develop curated streaming video collections from a variety of media publishers. Choose from a growing list of available titles on the platform or license a new title – illumira covers the complete spectrum of processes, including cataloging, digitization, access provisioning, reporting and license management. Subscribers simply discover and access the titles you have licensed from the portal; instructors can embed them inside courses along with features such as closed captions and learning objects.

List of Media Publishers available

Trainer’s Toolchest

Commercial Vendors

Third World Newsreel

Commercial Vendors

The Video Project

Commercial Vendors

The Cinema Guild

Commercial Vendors

Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Commercial Vendors

Swank Motion Pictures

Commercial Vendors

Spark Media

Commercial Vendors

Sound Venture International Inc.

Commercial Vendors

Someday Melissa Inc.

Commercial Vendors

Soapbox Inc.

Commercial Vendors

Video publishers

Learning Objects

Videos

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Content Accessible Anytime, Anywhere

Your library content can be accessed by all members from any location and device from a secure platform

Latest Streaming Technology

HTML5 Player with Adaptive Streaming and cloud based infrastructure ensures easy streaming on all devices.

Closed Captioned and Chaptered

Media available with closed captions and navigation by chapters are also available if present in the original source.

Bonus content availability

Any DVD bonus content – such as film-maker interviews, abridged versions, reference material etc. are automatically included.

Create Annotations, Chapters and Playlists

Personalize access through features such as annotations/clips, chapters, bookmarks and playlists that can be saved for later viewing. Learning objects can also be shared with the class or with other users using your own metadata.

Accessible Media with Rich Features

illumira features an accessible Section 508 compliant web player with WAI-ARIA support and keyboard access functionality with enhanced features such as playback speed control.

Simple Workflow with Content Flexibility

License As You Go

Curation driven by patron interest ensures a collection is optimized for your user community

Seamless Sourcing and Cataloging

illumira will work with the media vendor/publisher in sourcing the physical file and catalog titles based on library standards with discoverable metadata fields

All-inclusive Content Digitization

illumira team will digitize and convert your licensed videos into optimal quality streaming files. Content is digitized and made available with extra features such as closed captioning, DVD bonus features and vendor provided learning objects.

Unrivaled support

The illumira team will assist you in adding your requested title into your collection and work with producers/filmmakers in digitizing their content.

DSL perpetual licenses

Perpetual DLS licenses offered by many popular vendors and streamed from illumira are a cost-effective alternative to term licenses and high streaming costs

MARC Records

Library staff and users can access and download MARC and other records for integration with other library systems

Increased ROI of licensed content

Easy Discovery through Enterprise Search

illumira enables improved content discovery and usage through metadata and caption/transcript text enterprise search. Advanced search options such as in-video text search capability that allows jump-to-scene feature encourages media access through ease of use.

LMS integration & embed capability

Ready integrations with LMS systems allows instructors to easily discover and insert licensed videos into courses. No separate login required to access videos as authentication happens through the LMS. Each video has its own unique embed code for embedding videos on campus portals.

Real time Reporting and Statistics

illumira’s live reporting lets librarians gauge usage of individual media items as well as see the institutional level usage and feedback to digital streaming content. All reports can be downloaded with interesting facets such as most popular titles, device and browser usage.

Cost Savings

See your catalog status at any time using the built in license management tools to control licensing and monitor utilization of holdings by patrons with a user friendly analytics interface. Monitoring license usage helps to keep cost down as you know what your users are using and can adjust licensing requirements accordingly. Librarians can also use this tool to get information on license expiration dates.

Integration with your Identity access management system

Libraries have multiple options such as AD/LDAP, EZProxy and Shibboleth to enable access restriction though a federated institutional access mechanism. This means no creation of separate user accounts for different media publishers.

Single Window Access

With illumira, libraries can achieve convergence of all media assets, in a reliable secure platform with easy access to them, anytime, anywhere and on any device.

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The illumira licensed media hosting service enables libraries to host and stream licensed video content to faculty, staff and students from a comprehensive hosted media platform.

List of Media Publishers available

Trainer’s Toolchest

Third World Newsreel

The Video Project

The Cinema Guild

Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Swank Motion Pictures

Spark Media

Sound Venture International Inc.

Someday Melissa Inc.

Soapbox Inc.

Rich features users love

Content Accessible Anytime, Anywhere

Latest Streaming Technology

Closed Captioned and Chaptered

Bonus content availability

Create Annotations, Chapters and Playlists

Accessible Media with Rich Features

Simple Workflow with Content Flexibility

License As You Go

Seamless Sourcing and Cataloging

All-inclusive Content Digitization

Unrivaled support

DSL perpetual licenses

MARC Records

Increased ROI of licensed content

Easy Discovery through Enterprise Search

LMS integration & embed capability

Real time Reporting and Statistics

Cost Savings

Integration with your Identity access management system

Single Window Access

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