Multimedia and the Institutional Network

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Multimedia and the Institutional Network

• Greg Newton-Ingham
• Agora Project Manager - UEA

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Who am I?

• Project Manager - Agora eLib project
• Project Manager - Moving Image Pilot Project (Jan
  98 - Mar 99)
• Member of the CEI working group on moving images
• Project Manager - BITE TLTP project phase 1

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Overview

• Content
• Use
• Technology

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Content

• National
• Locally produced
• Purchased

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Rights

• Who ?
• What ?
• Where ?
• When ?

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Use

• Practicalities - Sound
• Access to technology
• No established tools

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Technology

• Source
• Digitise
• Mount
• Deliver
• Play

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Source

• Film
• Video
• Generated
• Streamed
• Downloaded

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Metadata - The Glue

• Metadata
• SIFT
• Dublin Core
• XML RDF
• Integration
• Libraries
• Intranet
• Course materials

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Digitise

• Architectures
• File Formats
• Codecs

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File Formats Compression
COmpressor
DE-Compressor
File Formats
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File Encoding

• AVI
• QuickTime
• MPEG
• DV
• Any propriety format

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Codecs

• Asymmetric
• MPEG1- VCR quality at 1.3 Mbps
• MPEG2 - DVD and Digital TV (4 to 6 Mbps)
• MPEG3 - Defunct
• MPEG Layer 3 - Audio
• MPEG4 - Quicktime architecture codec
• MPEG7 - The future?
• Cinepak
• Sorrenson

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Mount

• Server performance
• Size

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Datasizes - Just the BBC archive

• BBC Hours 1,000,000
• Megabits 18,000,000,000
• Megabytes 2,250,000,000
• Gigabytes 2,197,265
• Terrabytes 2145
• Petabytes 2.09

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Deliver 1

• Network Architecture
• Contention v Constant Bit Rate
• Quality of Service

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Deliver 2

• Streamed
• Live Streamed
• Down loaded

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Play

• Network connection
• Internal Architecture
• Video Card

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The Vision

• moving images as first class citizens
• fully integrated into the DNER(Distributed
  National Electronic Resource)
• pervasive
• unremarkable
• global

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Strategy Personal

• delivery technology
• rights
• costs
• usage

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Strategy Institutional

• digital asset management
• MIS, Teaching and Research
• quality of service
• bandwidth
• support

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Strategy Inter-institutional

• market creation
• partnerships
• product differentiation
• bandwidth

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Blatant Plugs

• One day workshop at the BUFVC October 5th approx
  60 pounds.
• Email Hetty_at_bufvc.ac.uk
• Email listbufvc-movies_at_mailbase.ac.uk
• http//www.bufvc.ac.uk/