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Multimedia and the Institutional Network

Explore the integration of multimedia content in the DNER, addressing digitization, metadata, file formats, codecs, and delivery. Strategies for personal, institutional, and inter-institutional levels are discussed.

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Multimedia and the Institutional Network

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  1. Multimedia and the Institutional Network Greg Newton-Ingham Agora Project Manager - UEA

  2. 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

  3. Overview • Content • Use • Technology

  4. Content • National • Locally produced • Purchased

  5. Rights • Who ? • What ? • Where ? • When ?

  6. Use • Practicalities - Sound • Access to technology • No established tools

  7. Technology • Source • Digitise • Mount • Deliver • Play

  8. Source • Film • Video • Generated • Streamed • Downloaded

  9. Metadata - The Glue • Metadata • SIFT • Dublin Core • XML & RDF • Integration • Libraries • Intranet • Course materials

  10. Digitise • Architectures • File Formats • Codecs

  11. File Formats & Compression COmpressor DE-Compressor File Formats

  12. File Encoding • AVI • QuickTime • MPEG • DV • Any propriety format

  13. 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 …

  14. Mount • Server performance • Size

  15. 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

  16. Deliver 1 • Network Architecture • Contention v Constant Bit Rate • Quality of Service

  17. Deliver 2 • Streamed • Live Streamed • Down loaded

  18. Play • Network connection • Internal Architecture • Video Card

  19. The Vision • moving images as first class citizens • fully integrated into the DNER(Distributed National Electronic Resource) • pervasive • unremarkable • global

  20. Strategy: Personal • delivery technology • rights • costs • usage

  21. Strategy: Institutional • digital asset management • MIS, Teaching and Research • quality of service • bandwidth • support

  22. Strategy: Inter-institutional • market creation • partnerships • product differentiation • bandwidth

  23. 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/

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