An On-Demand Media Repository

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• An On-Demand Media Repository

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Agenda

• What is Pacific Lighthouse? (Wilke)
• CENIC/UW/Internet2 Connections (Evans)
• Other partners (Wilke)
• Technology (DeRoest)
• ResearchChannel (McMonigal)
• Challenges (Evans)
• QA

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Imagine the Possibilities
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Jazz, anyone?
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What is Pacific Lighthouse?

• A research collaboration between UW, CENIC,
  providers of digital collections, and school
  partners
• An on-demand media repository built upon MediaWeb
  technology, I2 middleware, and the
  high-performance advanced services networks in
  California and Washington
• An investigation into the pedagogical uses of
  digital libraries

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Pacific Lighthouse Development Partners

• University of Washington, Educational
  Partnerships Learning Technologies
• CENIC (Corporation for Educational Networking in
  California)

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I2 Member Universities
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K-20 Networks
Washingtons K-20 network
Digital California K-20 network
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K-20 Collaboration
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Goals of Pacific Lighthouse

• To evaluate the performance of Internet2
  technologies (e.g., MediaWeb), and identify
  issues associated with use
• To determine how teachers and students might use
  digital collections as primary source materials
• To assess the usefulness of multi-media digital
  collections for pedagogical purposes

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Potential Content Partners

• The ResearchChannel (UW)
• Radio stations KEXP (Seattle) and KCRW (Santa
  Monica)
• The Densho Project and Visual History Foundation
  (Survivors of the SHOAH)
• California Digital Library (UC)
• Conversations with History (UC)
• The Jason Project

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Potential School Partners

• Aberdeen Schools, WA
• Tukwila Schools, WA
• Seattle Schools, WA
• Tulare County Schools, CA
• Pomona Schools, CA
• Other CA and WA schools TBA

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Parallel Project

• Pacific Lighthouse is a complementary project to
  Viewing the Future, a video repository aligned
  with Michigan educational standards that is
  being created by a partnership between UW and
  MERIT

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Scaling Up

• By means of the SEGP structure, the National
  Internet2 K-20 initiative will leverage both
  Pacific Lighthouse and Viewing the Future to
  provide access to a wide variety of on-demand
  media first to additional states, and then to the
  national K-20 community

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Jim DeRoest Back end engineering

• Digital Asset Management MediaWeb
• Middleware
• MPEG2 and HD Service
• On-Demand Kiosk Demonstration

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Asset Management Services
Remote Stream Manager
Media Store
Disk Cache
Request Director
Robotic Tape
Asset Metadata
Delivery Services Image, Quicktime, Windows,
Real, HD, Webcasting
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Middleware

• DB, Directory, XML, OAI Discovery
• I2 VidMid VoD
• MERIT Proposal
• AMIA MIG Proposal
• DRM

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MPEG2 and HD Service

• Broadcast On Demand
• Broadcast Live Stream
• MPEG2
• MJPEG

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On-Demand Kiosk Demo

• RC MPEG2, KEXP Archive

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Kathleen McMonigal
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ResearchChannel Participants

• Participants
• Baylor College of Medicine
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Duke University
• George Mason University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Johns Hopkins University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• National University of Singapore
• Oregon Health and Science University
• Princeton University
• Rice University
• Stanford University
• Tufts University
• University of Alaska-Fairbanks

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ResearchChannel Participants, contd.

• University of Chicago
• University of Colorado
• University of Hawaii
• University of Houston
• University of Maryland-College Park
• University of North Carolina
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas -Austin
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Vanderbilt University
• Virginia Tech
• Yale University

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ResearchChannel Participants, contd.

• CENIC
• Internet2
• National Academies
• National Academy of Engineering
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Institutes of Health
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• National Sea Grant College Program
• R1edu.org
• Research Centers
• IBM Corporation
• Sony Electronics Inc.

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ResearchChannel Goals

• Create a recognized global media presence for
  research activity
• Provide a high-quality, accessible resource for
  research information
• Encourage collaborations and technology
  experiments among ResearchChannel participants to
  develop new methods of distribution

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Internet Viewership

• 35,000 requests for web pages, Webcasts, and
  on-demand files fulfilled per month
• Viewership from around the world

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Program Access Via Internet Top Domains
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Organization

• Board
• Four Advisory Councils
• -Programming
• -Technology
• -Fundraising
• -International
• Annual meetings, conferences, seminars
• Internet Streaming Projects and Digital Media
  Management

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Benefits-Distribution

• Content for Broadcasts and Webcasts
• Encoding of Content for On-Demand
• Access to Expert Resources
• Downlink for Retransmission to Local Area

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ResearchChannel Programming

• 40 New Programs Premier Each Month

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Programs by Subject
Medical Health Science
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Language Literature
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Life PhysicalScience 6
Social Science
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Arts 4
Engineering
Technology 3
K-12 Higher
Education 6
Business 5
Computer Science
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Challenges

• Funding
• Intellectual property issues
• Bandwidth
• Location of media
• Branding of resources
• Appropriateness of materials
• Teacher acceptance/training
• Ongoing management and support of repository

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Goals of Pacific Lighthouse

• To evaluate the performance of Internet2
  technologies (e.g., MediaWeb), and identify
  issues associated with use
• To determine how teachers and students might use
  digital collections as primary source materials
• To assess the usefulness of multi-media digital
  collections for pedagogical purposes

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Questions?