Introduction to the Workshop from TERENA

Performing Arts Production Workshop 13-15 July 2009 Trieste, Italy

Valentino CavalliTERENA

cavalli@terena.orgwww.terena.org

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About TERENA

› TERENA offers a forum to collaborate, innovate and share knowledge in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community.

› TERENA is first and foremost a collaborative organisation.

› Its core business is to bring together managers, technical specialists and other people in the research networking community with their counterparts from other countries in Europe, mobilising the expertise and experience of hundreds of professionals in the research and education networking area.

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10 years in Voice and Video Collaboration

› TF-Stream› 1999-2001 - use of audio/video streaming and conferencing over the

Internet

› TF-Netcast› 2003-2004 – portal for live streaming announcements› IP Telephony Cookbook

› TF-VVC (Voice, Video and Collaboration)› 2004-2006 – suitability of voice, video and collaboration technologies

for NRENs› GDS admin table

› TF-VSS (Videoconference Service Studies)› 2006-2007 - Europe-wide videoconferencing service for the higher

education and research communities

› TF-ECS (Enhanced Communication Services)› 2006-2008 – collaboration tools and technologies that go beyond

simple voice and video conferencing› Achievements: NRENum.net service, N-ECS server image and SIP

Handbook

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User Requirements in Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

› Network to support content-centric activities and to retrieve information or sources of inspiration

› Intensification of Internet technologies › in multi-disciplinary scientific projects, › users in Humanities and Social Sciences working

together with researchers from Computer Science or Engineering departments

› 3 types of usage came out from EARNEST study:› performing arts (dance, music, theater..)› virtual environment, simulation› access to information repositories

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Application areas

› Categories of advanced applications clustered based on technical requirements

› Real-Time Collaboration technologies (video conferencing, virtual environment)

› Live performances – music and dance( streaming, video)› Libraries and digital repositories› AA Infrastructures and Trust (secure federated

environment)› Peer to peer technologies› Online surveys

› NRENs are instrumental : provide high bandwidth and QoS

› Network is part of the creative work, and new trends in the Arts lead to pedagogical changes in student curriculum

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Media management and Distribution

”The NRENs’ community is in a good position to provide audio and video recording, repository and distribution services to universities (where e.g., lectures can be recorded, archived and distributed), taking into account special requirements.”

(conclusion from a BoF in May 2008)

› Media Management and Distribution Workshop and Task Force

› Workshop January 2009 – 45+ participants, lot of interest› Topics:

› 1) Video Content Management Systems› 2) Federating Media Repositories

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Scope and dimensions

Content

Quality

Access

Protection

Storage

SearchingCost

Others?

Media management

and

distribution services

- From centralised to distributed

approach- Federating content storage- Potential collaboration with TF-

Storage

- Recommendations for

METADATA types,

formats, structures,

levels, etc.

- Security- Federated access- non-web based AAI- Potential collaboration with TF-

EMC2

- Investigate open standards

- Define the workflow/architecture- Give guidelines / best practices- Liaise with OpenCast, EUNIS, … ?

Task Force:

to provide a forum for exchanging and promoting ideas, experience and

knowledge

- Promote the concept- Use Cases- Legal issues- Potential collaboration with TF-PR

-Compare/share existing

modules