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

1. 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.
2. Enter information in the following sections, as required.
3. 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. 
4. 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:

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 

Additional References

• Video: Working with Media Mentions
• Working with the Esploro Research Hub