Educational Webcasting and Streaming Archives
underTF-STREAM Deliverable F. Web repository of publicly
available audio/video materials
Yuri Demchenko
Project Development Officer, TERENA
http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/mmis/
Building web repository of publicly available audio and video materials
• TERENA Initiative on Coordination of Portal related projects at NRENs– Video and Streaming over Internet as a component Portal Solution
• Visual Information in Education and Research– Cataloguing/Browsing/Searching/Indexing
• Video and Streaming related information directory structure– In popular SE/Directory services (Yahoo!, Altavista, Dmoz, EEVL, Safari)
– Current/proposed structure – for the purposes of professional community
• Educational Video and Streaming resources on the Internet– in Europe
– in USA
– in Commercial companies’ strategies
• How to proceed?
Video and Streaming over Internet as a component Portal Solution
• Overview and Information page http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/mmis/• TERENA Initiative on Coordination of Portal related projects at NRENs
– Information page http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/
– Portal Coordination Workshop – February 9, 2001 (tentatively)
• Academic Portal Components - Conceptual– Research Indexing service
– Directory services and Metadata
– Content distribution • Video-on-Demand and Streaming (plus hosting)• Content Replication and Caching
Visual Information in Education and Research
• Conferences video archives vs Conference Proceedings– Q&A – Parallel sessions – (Parallel conferences)
• Devoted lectures/seminars – Ad Hoc topics– Lectures by expert specialists
– Exchange with both teacher and auditorium
• Distance Education and Training– Courses on demand
– Hands-on and practical lessons (e.g., surgery, fiber cabling, etc.)
– Virtual classroom
• Distinctive features– Live video/speech
– Information humanisation/impersonalisation
– Still paper-like information vs train-of-thought
– Virtual presence
Visual materials Cataloguing/Browsing/Searching/Indexing
• Textual description• Content/background/etc. Indexing/Searching
– Image patterns• Image layers/Image decomposition
– Video snapshots
• Embedded/linked description?– Metadata
– MPEG7
Video and Streaming related information in popular SE/Directory services – Yahoo!
Video and Streaming related information in popular SE/Directory services – Altavista
Video and Streaming related information in popular SE/Directory services – Dmoz
Video and Streaming related information in popular SE/Directory services – EEVL
Video and Streaming related information – proposed structure
Video and Streaming over the Internet as a Component Portal Solution
http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/mmis/ • Webcasting Events
– Archive of webcasting events
• Educational Webcasting and Streaming Archives • Commercial Services on VoD and Streaming (Voice and Video) • Projects and Technical Information on Video and Streaming related
technologies • Standards on Multicast, Streaming and Internet TV • Internet Multimedia and Streaming products
Projects and Technical Information on Video and Streaming related technologies
http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/mmis/mmis-info.html• Projects and Initiatives
– European NRENs
– Internet2 and Worldwide
• Technical Information and Guides • News and Archives
Standards on Multicast, Streaming and Internet TV
http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/mmis/mmis-std.html• ISO Standardisation - Multimedia data format
– MPEG Standards
– Other MPEG Resources
• ITU-T Standardisation - Communication Protocols • IETF Standardisation - Communication Protocols • W3C and other Standardisation
– Multimedia Metadata format and Markup language
Educational Video and Streaming Resources on the Internet - Europe
• European archive– FUNET-TV - http://tv.funet.fi/index-en.html
– SURFnet • Video and Streaming hosting - http://stream.surfnet.nl/
– Live Video broadcast at BELNET - http://sunsite.belnet.be/events/
– University of Namur Educational materials - http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~infonet/coursenligne/
– Israel - http://www.internet-2.org.il/vod.html • University of Haifa - Weizmann Institute of Science - Ben Gurion University
– More – to be descovered!
Educational Video and Streaming resources on the Internet - USA
• Internet2 Video Development Initiative - http://www.vide.net/ • ResearchChannel - http://www.researchchannel.com/
– Collaboration to experiment with high bandwidth modes of delivery and exchanges in educational and research-oriented information
• Multi-University Research Laboratory Seminar Series - http://murl.microsoft.com/
• MREN/CIC Digital Video Streaming - http://videocharger.mcs.anl.gov/demo.html
• University of Washington - ResearchTV - http://www.washington.edu/researchtv/
• EE380 Colloquium at Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory - http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/
• Berkley Multimedia Research Center - http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/index.html
Video and Streaming in Company’s Strategies
• IBM Web Lecture Services - http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/global/portfolios/weblecture.html
• Cisco - ?
Technical Seminars, Conferences, etc.• MP3 educational audio from Stardust.com MP3 University -
http://www.stardust.com/mp3.htm#Unicast• Directory on Educational Video at Yahoo! Broadcast.com -
http://www.broadcast.com/video/Education/
Web repository of publicly available audio and video materials - Further development
• Do we need this service?• Classification: Positioning of Video and Streaming category in
general/global Directory of resources• Directory/Catalog maintenance – 1 day/month• Repository
– Hosting Videostreaming materials
– Contribution and Copyright
– Indexing and Searching
– Metadata
• European Research and Educational Portal Service
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