Working with Media Groups
Creating Media Groups
Media Groups are a great way to save, organize, and share select media. Upon registering for an account in LUNA a private Active Media Group is automatically created and named "My First Media Group". As you browse LUNA you can easily add media to your Active Media Group and create as many Media Groups as you like to then embed, link to, playback as a slide show, or use for creating presentations.
Creating a Folder for Media Groups
Media Groups can be listed individually or saved into a folder. To organize your Media Groups use the Create Folders function.
Your Active Media Group
As soon as you register an account in LUNA , an Active Media Group is created. This first Active Media Group is titled "My First Media Group." As you browse content in a collection you can add this content to your Active Media Group .
Adding media to a Media Group
Checking what is already in your Active Media Group
While browsing LUNA and looking for content to add to your Active Media Group you might want to check to make sure you haven't already added that content. For a quick reference to see what is already in your Active Media Group, open the Active Media Group panel located at the bottom of LUNA.
Changing your Active Media Group
You can easily change which group is your Active Media Group from the Active Media Group pull down menu located at the bottom of the page.
Viewing and Managing Media Groups
By clicking on the title of a Media Group you can view the media in that group as a page of thumbnails.
From this page of thumbnails you can also do the following with your Media Group:
Edit Media Group properties (name, publicly viewable, password, folder, default, description)
Manage the Media Group
Reorder media
Copy the Media Group
View the Media Group as a Slide Show
Export the Media Group
Export Media Group to PowerPoint
Add external media (Flickr images) to the Media Group
Add personal media from My Uploads
Viewing Media Groups as a Slideshow
In addition to viewing the media in a Media Group as a page(s) of thumbnails you can view them as a Slide Show. The Slide Show can be used for immediate playback.
To view a Media Group as a Slide Show:
Open the Media Group by clicking on its title.
Click on the Slide Show icon. The Media Group will then be presented as a Slide Show.
Mouse over an image in the Slide Show to view the paging controls. These controls allow you to move onto the next or previous slide, or view the image in the Detail View.
Audio, video and other misc. files will not be included in the Slide Show . So if you have 14 objects in your Media Group and 2 of them are audio files, you will only have 12 objects available in the Slide Show playback.
You can link to this Slide Show by clicking on the Share This tool in the upper right corner, or Embed This to create an embeddable web widget of the Media Group as a Slide Show.
Editing Media Group Properties
To edit a the properties of a Media Group go to Explore > Media Groups . As you mouse over the Media Group in question select the Edit Media Group Properties icon.
The following Media Group properties can be edited at any time:
Name (max 50 characters)
Publicly Viewable
Password (optional)
The folder they are saved into (optional)
Whether this is your Active Media Group
Description (optional)
Annotations and Media Groups
While viewing an image in the LUNA Workspace or Detail View you will have the option of adding annotations to that image.
When an annotation is saved to a Media Group, you must first open that Media Group then view the image in the LUNA Workspace or Detail View in order to see the annotation. If you are just browsing a collection, find an image you know has an annotation (and it was saved to a Media Group), then view that image in the Detail View you won't see the annotation- the image must first be opened via the Media Group it was saved into.
If the properties of a Media Group change, this will not affect the annotation. For example, if an annotation is saved in the Media Group titled "Portraits" and then you change the Media Group name to "National Gallery Portraits", the annotations will still be associated with that Media Group.
It's important to understand the 3 options for how these annotations can be saved:
Privately: only the person who created it can see it.
To a Media Group: in order to view the annotation the image must be opened from the Media Group the annotation was saved into.
At a collection level: only those with collection level privileges will see this as an option; this option allows the annotation to be viewed by anyone. This option applies to institutional content only, there are no "collection level" saving privileges for annotations made on images from the External Media Search or My Uploads.