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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?.
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Agenda • What is Pacific Lighthouse? (Wilke) • CENIC/UW/Internet2 Connections (Evans) • Other partners (Wilke) • Technology (DeRoest) • ResearchChannel (McMonigal) • Challenges (Evans) • Q&A
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)
K-20 Networks Washington’s K-20 network Digital California K-20 network
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 DeRoestBack end engineering • Digital Asset Management – MediaWeb • Middleware • MPEG2 and HD Service • On-Demand Kiosk Demonstration
Transcoding Metadata Creation, Admin TV Broadcast Services Radio DJ Services Asset Management Services Remote Stream Manager Media Store Disk Cache Request Director Robotic Tape Asset Metadata Delivery Services Image, Quicktime, Windows, Real, HD, Webcasting …
MediaWeb Topology Streaming Cluster Archive Site 1 Robotic Tape Silos Internet Web & Stream Channel Mgrs Switch Web & Stream Site 2 Mgrs Internet Archive Robotic Streaming Tape Silos Cluster
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
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
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
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 Medical & Health Science 4% Language & Literature 19% Life & PhysicalScience 6% Social Science 25% Arts 4% Engineering & Technology 3% K-12 & Higher Education 6% Business 5% Computer Science 28%
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