Video and Streaming over Internet as a Component

Video and Streaming over Internet as a Component Portal Solution Yuri Demchenko Project Development Officer, TERENA <demchenko@terena. nl> http: //www. terena. nl/projects/reis/mmis/

Video and Streaming over Internet as component Portal Solution • REIS Initiative • TERENA Academic Portal Initiative/Project – What do people need from Academic Portal? – Academic Portal as community Oriented Portal • Visual Information in Education and Research – Cataloguing/Browsing/Searching/Indexing • Educational Video and Streaming resources on the Internet – in Europe – in USA – in Commercial companies’ strategies

REIS Initiative (REsearch Indexing Service for Europe) • Started from Bo. F at TNNC’ 99 http: //www. terena. nl/projects/reis/ – Main goal - to build pilot service for Research and Education community in Europe • Specific REIS features – Comprehensive coverage of Research-on-the-web – Both searchable and browsable by subject – Interactive search refinement • Finding Authoritative Resources - ”Topic Distillation” – Adaptive crawling and automatic (pre-)classification of gathered data – Attribute (metadata) searching • Dublin Core metadata search capability – Multilinguality and cross-language searching • Multilingual support in interface

TERENA Academic Portal Initiative/Project (TAP) • To supersede REIS – Answer on vital needs of R&A community in specific Information Service • Main components – – – Indexing/Searching tools/engine Cross-Searching Automatic Indexes and human-made Subject Gateways Directory services Video-on-Demand Streaming (plus hosting) Content Replication • Portal as an access point to all what’s behind the Portal – All what community uses, develops and needs – Multilsite and multihome for services • Collaborative vs distributed

Academic Portal goals • Community oriented Portal – Binding and assisting specific community – Virtual community with its Knowledge accumulation and domain specific resources • Research diversification and knowledge accumulation • Assistive services/tools for Researchers and Educators – building authorities in new domains – discovering knowledge/resources in European/worldwide Internet • Cooperation with industry – to help research community – to provide feedback and input from research community

What do people need from Academic Portal? • Information in specific research area – new and diverse areas not covered by existing classification and Subject Gateways • (Virtual) Community interaction – Possibility to talk to expert (become bound into community) – to communicate with people – to find colleagues • Video/audio materials – personalised experience • Build personal profiles and exchange of experience and findings – Shared bookmark - to accumulate highly professional experience • Access to Open Research area – Assistive tools – Automatic classification and knowledge mining

Academic Portal as Community Oriented Portal • To build successful Portal you need to find/build proper community – Community membership creates willingness to cooperate in resources and services creation and development • Bottom-up vs Top-down approach • Possibility to communicate between people (community members) – create cooperative environment – virtual (point of) presence • Finding relevant resources in diverse areas • Starting with specific area and specific services in general concept • Ask and propose to users – user needs driven approach

Academic Portal Value-Added Services • Combined with communication between researches – to explore common finding – building virtual community/presence • Knowledge Accumulation and Dissemination • Quality Information Resources enabled by “web-of-trust” • Advertisement from and linkage to the Scientific publishers

Back to Video&Streaming related issues • Overview and Information page http: //www. terena. nl/projects/reis/mmis/

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 – MPEG 7

Video/Multimedia - Access issues • Organisational/University Internet • Home/modem Internet • Wireless/WAP Access – MPEG 4 – WAP Gateway to AP • Possibility to browse/preview video/audio information

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 • Internet 2 Video Development Initiative - http: //www. vide. net/ • Research. Channel - 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 - Research. TV http: //www. washington. edu/researchtv/ • EE 380 Colloquium at Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory - http: //www. stanford. edu/class/ee 380/ • 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 • MP 3 educational audio from Stardust. com MP 3 University http: //www. stardust. com/mp 3. htm#Unicast • Directory on Educational Video at Yahoo! Broadcast. com http: //www. broadcast. com/video/Education/

Where are we going to go today? • Promote use of Video and Streaming services/archives – in knowledge rich/generating areas – Among universities and research institutions – Conferences • Extend Vo. D and Streaming hosting Services – Among NRENs • Maintain Directory of available resources – First try in form of List is at http: //www. terena. nl/projects/reis/mmis/ – Add index/description – Develop cataloguing/indexing tools for visual/audio information