Rather than have a along, flat list of media types, could add the following to the top of the list:
Most recently entered
Most commonly used by this author
2nd most commonly used by this author
…
5th most commonly used by this author
The theory is that (a) it's quite likely that one will add batches of items of the same media type and (b) authors work in a limited range of media, which should be determinable by querying whatever underlying datastore we're using.
This is only for action if it is easy to do within the Drupal / Islandora framework, otherwise we should suggest it on the dev list first and see how much interest there is.
Rather than have a along, flat list of media types, could add the following to the top of the list:
Most recently entered Most commonly used by this author 2nd most commonly used by this author … 5th most commonly used by this author
The theory is that (a) it's quite likely that one will add batches of items of the same media type and (b) authors work in a limited range of media, which should be determinable by querying whatever underlying datastore we're using.