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This article provides an overview of Internet2 and its mission to develop advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education. It also highlights the Internet2 membership, corporate partners, and affiliate members, along with examples of universities and organizations involved in Internet2 initiatives. The article explores how Internet2 has facilitated multi-site performances in various arts and humanities disciplines, including streaming media, dance, and music. It also discusses the Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group, which aims to capture and manage digital assets of live performance events.
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Where is There!? Internet2 and Multi-site Performances Ann Doyle Manager, Arts & Humanities Initiatives Theatre Library Association Symposium, Oct 2003
Internet2 Mission • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
Internet2 is a not for profit membership organization • Regular • US institutions of higher education • Corporate • Partners • Sponsors • Members • Affiliate • Non-profit and other research or education organizations
Additional Participation • Over 60 Internet2 Corporate Partners, Sponsors and Members • Over 30 Affiliate Members • Over 30 International Partners • Sponsored Education Group Participants
Altarum American Distance Education Consortium Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) CENIC CERN Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland Museum of Art Department of Commerce, Boulder Desert Research Institute EDUCAUSE Food and Drug Administration Howard Hughes Medical Institute Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS) Jet Propulsion Laboratories LaNet Manhattan School of Music MCNC Merit Network, Inc. MOREnet NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Marshall Space Flight Center National Institutes of Health National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Silver Spring National Science Foundation New World Symphony NYSERNet, Inc. Oak Ridge National Labs OARnet OneNet Internet2 Affiliate Members PeachNet Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Southwest Research Institute State University of New York System State University System of Florida Survivors of the Shoah-Visual History Foundation University Corporation for Atmospheric Research University of Missouri System University of North Carolina, General Administration
APAN-KR (Korea) ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CANARIE (Canada) CARNET (Croatia) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (china) APAN (Asia-pacific) CESnet (Czech republic) CUDI (Mexico) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) AAIREP (Australia) Fundacion internet 2 Argentina (Argentina) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) JAIRC (Japan) JISC/UKERNA (UK) JUCC (Hong Kong) NORDUnet (Nordic countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) REUNA (Chile) RPN2 (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) SingAREN (Singapore) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TAnet2 (Taiwan) TERENA (Europe) International MoU Partners
Abilene Network Infrastructure • Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) to 10 Gbps (OC192) capacity today • GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance aggregation points • Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop
Streaming Media Indiana University Georgetown University Gallaudet University
ASL Poetry Georgetown University Gallaudet University
Master Classes University of Oklahoma New World Symphony Columbia University Manhattan School of Music
University of Oklahoma • Felicia Moyer
New World Symphony • Michael Tilson Thomas photo by R. Andrew Lepley
Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music and CANARIE Inc. • Pinchas Zukerman
Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Institute of Music: The Bing Theater, University of Southern California, Oct 2002
Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Bing Theater, University of Southern California, Oct 2002
Technophobe and the Madman New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
Video Clips Virtual Halloween at the Rialto New World Symphony Master Class Kinetic Shadows
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group • Co-sponsored by: • Internet2 www.internet2.edu • Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) www.cni.org
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group • Staffed by: • Faculty (art, theater, music, ethnomusicology, library science) • Campus information technologists • Library of Congress • Proquest Information and Learning • Council on Library and Information Resources • Online Computer Library Center • Internet2 • Coalition for Networked Information
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group • Produced two white papers: • Capturing Live Performance Events (http://arts.internet2.edu/files/performance-capture(v09).pdf) • Digital Asset Management (http://arts.internet2.edu/files/digital-asset-management(v09).pdf) • (compiled, edited and authorship contributions by University of Michigan intern, Leilani Dawson)
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group • Capturing Live Performance Events: • Current practices in the field of digitally-recorded performance • Three budget categories: consumer, prosumer, professional • Scenarios: fixed site, fieldwork/mobile setup, multi-site • Lighting, video, audio
Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group • Digital Asset Management: • Intellectual property • Metadata standards, schemas, frameworks, and formats • Search and retrieval • Digital collection software/systems • Putting it all together
Where do we go from here? • Invent and collaborate • Evaluate • Move from the extraordinary to the routine • Educate • Authenticate and authorize users • Encourage local and regional fiber efforts • Woo funding agencies
More Info ... • www.internet2.edu • adoyle@internet2.edu • apps.internet2.edu/talks/ • Ann Doyle Internet2 3025 Boardwalk Suite 100 Ann Arbor, MI 48108 +1.734.352.7011