Working with Media Mentions
- Media Mentions Manager
The Media Mentions feature is only available to Esploro Advanced Edition customers.
Media mentions are references to your researchers and their work that appear in non-academic sources, such as newspaper articles, television programs, and podcasts. Records of media mentions can be saved in Esploro and associated with researchers, assets, and projects, as follows:
- When a media mention is associated with a researcher, it can appear in a Media tab in the researcher's Profile.
- When a media mention is associated with an asset, it can appear in the full asset page of the asset, under Related media.
- When a media mention is associated with a project, it appears in the project's Details pane in the Hub. (The relationship must also be created in the Details pane of the project; see Working with Projects.)
This page describes working with media mentions in Esploro. For information about configuring media mentions, see Configuring Media Mentions.
Watch the Media Mentions video (2:42).
Adding Media Mentions
You can add media mentions in the Media Mention page (Repository > Media Mentions > Add Media Mentions). When you create a new media-mentions record, you can add a variety of details about the media mention:
- General information about the media mention
- Information about associated affiliated and unaffiliated researchers, internal academic units, external organizations, and assets
- A general description of the item, and details about the topics covered in the item
- Links
- Files
- Additional comments
In addition, you can choose whether the media mention will be made available in the associated researchers' Profiles.
A media mention cannot be saved if the following required information is not given:
- Title
- Media-mention date
- Either an associated researcher or an associated internal organizational unit
- In the Media Mention page (Repository > Media Mentions > Add Media Mentions), in the Media Mention Details section, fill in the fields as follows:
- Media Mention Title - This mandatory field is the title you give the media mention.
- Media Mention Type - The drop-down list is populated from the Media Mention Types table. See Media Mention Types.
- Media Mention Date - You must enter at least a beginning or end date for the media mention.
- Media Platform - The drop-down list is populated from the Media Platform Types table. See Media Platform Types.
- Language - Select the language of this media mention.
- Reporter - Enter the reporter name.
- Media Source - Enter the source of this media mention.
- Coverage - The drop-down list is populated from the Media Coverage Types table. See Media Coverage Types.
- Country - Select the country for this media mention.
- Enter information in the following sections, as required.
- Select one of the following:
- Approve to save the record and make it available for display in the Portal. You are prompted to select visibility settings for the record.
- Save Draft to save the record but not show it in the Portal.
- If you selected Approve, if you want to allow the media mention to appear in the associated researchers' Profiles, select Approve for display in profiles.
The Approve for display in portal option is not currently in use.After configuring this visibility setting, select Done.
Display Settings
The following configuration settings affect the display of media mentions in the Portal and Profiles:
- Configuration menu > Portal & Profiles > Research Portal > Assets Display Configuration (Research Portal page > Asset Page tab) – The Related Media option must be active in order for related media to appear in the full asset page in the Portal; see Configuring the Research Portal.
- Configuration menu > Portal & Profiles > Researcher Profiles > Researcher Profile Privacy Display Settings – Under Display Tabs, the Mentions Tab settings control whether the Media tab appears in associated-researchers' Profiles (Publicly, Signed in users only, or Only in private profile). Researchers can choose to hide specific media mentions from display in their public the Profiles. For additional information, see Configuring Researcher Profiles.
Two Media Mentions in a Researcher's Private Profile – One Hidden from Public View
Managing Media Mentions
You manage media mentions on the Media Mentions page. To open this page, search for media mentions (see Searching in Esploro).
The Media Mentions page displays a record list of media mentions. (For more information about record lists, see Record Lists.) The search results can be sorted in a variety of ways. Two levels of sorting are implemented: Sort by and Secondary Sort by. For each level, you can choose to sort in the following ways:
- Rank – An internal ranking mechanism that takes the following ranking factors into account:
- Term Frequency – The higher the search term frequency in the media mentions' metadata, the higher the score.
- Inverse Document Frequency – The rarer a search term is across all media mentions' metadata in the index, the higher its contribution to the score.
- Coordination Factor – The more search terms found in the media mentions' metadata, the higher its score.
- Field Length – The more words a field contains, the lower its score. This factor penalizes assets with longer metadata field values.
This ranking system is based on Apache Solr; for more information, see https://solrtutorial.com/solr-search-relevancy.html. - Title – In ascending or descending order
- Record Update Date – In ascending or descending order
- Media Mention Date – In ascending or descending order
Media Mention Icons
The following icons may appear beside a media mention in the Hub:
– The visibility option Approve for display in profiles is not selected for this media mention; the media mention is not displayed in the associated researchers' public Profiles.
– The visibility option Approve for display in portal is not selected for this media mention. (This option does not currently have any effect.)
Media Mention Actions
The actions available for each media mention are:
- Delete – Delete the media mention.
- Edit – Open the record for editing. See Adding Media Mentions, above, for information about the fields of the record.