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Multimedia and the Institutional Network. Greg Newton-Ingham Agora Project Manager - UEA. Who am I?. Project Manager - Agora eLib project Project Manager - Moving Image Pilot Project (Jan 98 - Mar 99) Member of the CEI working group on moving images
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Multimedia and the Institutional Network Greg Newton-Ingham Agora Project Manager - UEA
Who am I? • Project Manager - Agora eLib project • Project Manager - Moving Image Pilot Project (Jan 98 - Mar 99) • Member of the CEI working group on moving images • Project Manager - BITE TLTP project phase 1
Overview • Content • Use • Technology
Content • National • Locally produced • Purchased
Rights • Who ? • What ? • Where ? • When ?
Use • Practicalities - Sound • Access to technology • No established tools
Technology • Source • Digitise • Mount • Deliver • Play
Source • Film • Video • Generated • Streamed • Downloaded
Metadata - The Glue • Metadata • SIFT • Dublin Core • XML & RDF • Integration • Libraries • Intranet • Course materials
Digitise • Architectures • File Formats • Codecs
File Formats & Compression COmpressor DE-Compressor File Formats
File Encoding • AVI • QuickTime • MPEG • DV • Any propriety format
Codecs • Asymmetric • MPEG1- VCR quality at 1.3 Mbps • MPEG2 - DVD and Digital TV (4 to 6 Mbps) • MPEG3 - Defunct • MPEG Layer 3 - Audio • MPEG4 - Quicktime architecture + codec • MPEG7 - The future? • Cinepak • Sorrenson …
Mount • Server performance • Size
Datasizes - Just the BBC archive • BBC Hours 1,000,000 • Megabits 18,000,000,000 • Megabytes 2,250,000,000 • Gigabytes 2,197,265 • Terrabytes 2145 • Petabytes 2.09
Deliver 1 • Network Architecture • Contention v Constant Bit Rate • Quality of Service
Deliver 2 • Streamed • Live Streamed • Down loaded
Play • Network connection • Internal Architecture • Video Card
The Vision • moving images as first class citizens • fully integrated into the DNER(Distributed National Electronic Resource) • pervasive • unremarkable • global
Strategy: Personal • delivery technology • rights • costs • usage
Strategy: Institutional • digital asset management • MIS, Teaching and Research • quality of service • bandwidth • support
Strategy: Inter-institutional • market creation • partnerships • product differentiation • bandwidth
Blatant Plugs • One day workshop at the BUFVC October 5th approx 60 pounds. • Email: Hetty@bufvc.ac.uk • Email list:bufvc-movies@mailbase.ac.uk • http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/