An On-Demand Media Repository

Agenda

• What is Pacific Lighthouse? (Wilke)• CENIC/UW/Internet2 Connections

(Evans)• Other partners (Wilke)• Technology (DeRoest)• ResearchChannel (McMonigal)• Challenges (Evans)• Q&A

Imagine the Possibilities

Jazz, anyone?

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

Pacific Lighthouse Development Partners

• University of Washington, Educational Partnerships & Learning Technologies

• CENIC (Corporation for Educational Networking in California)

I2 Member Universities

K-20 Networks

Washington’s K-20 network

Digital California K-20 network

K-20 Collaboration

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

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

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

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

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

Jim DeRoest

Back end engineering

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

RoboticTape

RoboticTape

DiskCache

DiskCache

Media Store

Asset Metadata

Asset Metadata

Remote StreamManager

Remote StreamManager

RequestDirector

Transcoding

MetadataCreation, Admin

Asset Management Services

TV Broadcast Services

Radio DJ Services

Delivery ServicesImage, Quicktime,

Windows, Real, HD, Webcasting …

MediaWeb Topology

StreamingCluster

RoboticTape Silos

Archive

RoboticTape Silos

Archive

Site 1

Site 2

Channel Switch

StreamingCluster

Internet

Internet

Web & Stream Mgrs

Web & Stream Mgrs

Middleware

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

MPEG2 and HD Service

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

On-Demand Kiosk Demo

• RC MPEG2, KEXP Archive

Kathleen McMonigal

ResearchChannel ParticipantsParticipants:• 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

ResearchChannel Participants, cont’d.

• 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

ResearchChannel Participants, cont’d.

• 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.

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

Internet Viewership

• 35,000 requests for web pages, Webcasts, and on-demand files fulfilled per month

• Viewership from around the world

Program Access Via Internet: Top Domains

Organization

• Board• Four Advisory Councils: -Programming -Technology -Fundraising -International• Annual meetings, conferences,

seminars• Internet Streaming Projects and Digital

Media Management

Benefits-Distribution

• Content for Broadcasts and Webcasts

• Encoding of Content for On-Demand

• Access to Expert Resources• Downlink for Retransmission

to Local Area

ResearchChannel Programming

40 New Programs Premier Each Month

Programs by Subject

Computer ScienceComputer Science28%28%

Social ScienceSocial Science

25%25%

Medical & Health Science Medical & Health Science

19%19% Language & Literature Language & Literature 4%4%

Life & PhysicalLife & PhysicalScience 6%Science 6%

Arts 4%Arts 4%

Engineering & Engineering & Technology 3%Technology 3%

K-12 & Higher K-12 & Higher Education 6%Education 6%

Business 5%Business 5%

Challenges

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

repository

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

Questions?