SURA ViDe 5th Annual Digital Video Workshop

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SURA / ViDe 5th Annual Digital Video Workshop

• GCATT
• Atlanta, GA
• March 24-26, 2003

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• vide (VEE-day) is Latin for see
• quod vide (kwawd VEE-day) usually abbreviated
  q.v., is a scholarly way of directing the reader
  to a reference

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ViDe Mission

• The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) promotes
  the deployment of digital video in research and
  higher education. Leveraging our collective
  resources and expertise, ViDe advances digital
  video deployment through promotion and
  development of interoperable, standardized, and
  cost-effective technologies.

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ViDe Membership

• ViDe is an active collaboration of members
• Members are individuals, not institutions
• Members actively participate in working groups
  and projects
• No dues
• 183 individuals, from
• 128 institutions and organizations
• 17 countries

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ViDe Organization

• Working Groups
• WG chairs are on Steering Committee
• Project Groups
• Steering Committee, with elected chair

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ViDe Organization

• All that said some of the organization and
  membership points may change!
• ViDe is currently an informal association
• Working toward establishing a formal
  organizational status for ViDe

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Steering Committee

• Doug Pearson Indiana University, Bloomington
  ViDe Chair
• Jill Gemmill University of Alabama at
  Birmingham ViDe Past-Chair
• Grace Agnew Georgia Institute of Technology
• Markus Buchhorn Australian National University
• Bob Dixon Ohio State University
• Mike Estler Georgia Institute of Technology
• Chris Hodge University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Tyler Johnson University of North Carolina,
  Chapel Hill
• Peter Marshall CANARIE
• Ed Price Georgia Institute of Technology
• Mary Trauner Georgia Institute of Technology
• Egon Verharen SURFnet
• Mary Fran Yafchak SURA

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ViDe Activities

• Working groups
• Projects
• Conferences and Workshops
• Collaborate!

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ViDe Activities

• Current research and activity focus
• Videoconferencing
• Middleware for videoconferencing
• QoS for videoconferencing
• Videoconferencing Cookbook
• Streaming Media Cookbook
• Video access and digital rights management
• Data collaboration tools
• Training and outreach

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Working Groups

• Videoconferencing
• Streaming Video
• Video Access
• Data Collaboration

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Videoconferencing WG

• VC is an umbrella WG
• Working Groups
• ViDeNet
• NASM (Numerical Address Space Mgmt)
• Internet2 Commons
• VidMid-VC (AA, Directory, commObject)
• QoS
• Microsoft Group ? SIP

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Videoconferencing WG

• VC is an umbrella WG
• Projects
• Scout (network analysis simulation tool)
• Video Conferencing Cookbook
• Megaconference
• ViDe.Net Middleware (AA, directory, secure)
• LSVNP

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Videoconferencing WG

• In the program
• Tuesday 210 - 240 PMHow to Use the ViDeNet
  Site
• Wednesday 1100 - 1130 AMViDeNet Munch

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Streaming Video WG

• Provide a commons for people interested in
  streaming media technologies and services
• 34 members, representing 14 institutions
• Current Activities
• Develop a Streaming Media Cookbook
• Planned Activities
• Examine how to integrate digital media services
  into other existing and emerging initiatives such
  as digital library and distance education

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Streaming Video WG

• In the program
• Wednesday Breakout Track B
• Wednesday 1030 - 1100 AMThe ViDe Streaming
  Media Cookbook

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Video Access WG

• Promote effective, interoperable access to
  digital video resources.
• Current Activities
• Next edition of the Dublin Core application
  profile. Will include an explicit mapping to
  MPEG-7 to support improved description of digital
  video resources.
• Examination of rights metadata issues specific
  to digital video but also generally applicable to
  higher education resources.

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Video Access WG

• In the program
• Tuesday 140 - 210 PMMetadata for Video Overview

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Data Collaboration WG

• Perform a higher education needs analysis,
  standards analysis, tool discovery, and tool
  review and testing
• Current and Planned Activities
• Continue testing, and building the tool taxonomy
• Review and update the Needs Analysis
• Broaden community outreach in the WG
• Develop a white paper on standardization of
  product for particular application classes,
  including classrooms, meetings, project support,
  and recordings with synchronized multimedia

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Workshops and Conferences

• Annual Digital Video Workshops
• ViDe.Net Munch series
• One-time events
• Managing Digital Video Content, Aug 2001
• Using Dublin Core and MPEG-7 to Describe Digital
  Video, March 2003
• Internet2 Commons Training
• EDUCAUSE, Internet2

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How to Join ViDe Activities

• Working groups
• Join link on WG web pages
• ViDeNet
• vide-annouce_at_listserv.vide.net
• Next workshop

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Where to Learn More

• http//www.vide.net
• Doug Pearson
• dodpears_at_indiana.edu

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ViDeNet Update

• Tyler Miller Johnson
• Tyler_Johnson_at_unc.edu
• University of North Carolina
• ViDeNet, Internet2

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Dial Plan Status

• Successful migration to version 3 dial plan
• 116 zones
• 16 national gatekeepers
• Integration with E.164int for VoIP support
• Redundancy
• Numerical Address Space Working Group (NASM)
  oversight

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GDS Structure
Redundant roots in US, Wales, Ireland and
Australia.
Redundant roots in Chapel Hill,NC and Columbus,
OH.
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ViDeNet Toolset

• Zone administrators manage their own accounts
• Tools to create and manage zones
• Create customized web portal
• User endpoint account management
• Users manage their own accounts
• Request endpoints in any zone
• Directory access

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Directory Services

• Supports H.323, H.320, H.235, SIP
• Integrates flexibly with enterprise directories
• Allows for integrated centralized user management
• Allows multiple endpoints to be associated with a
  user
• Supports Directory of Directories portals
• Scheduled ratification in May 2003 as ITU-T H.350

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ViDe.Net Middleware

• NSF Funded Project
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Claremont Graduate University
• SURFNet
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Deliverables
• Directory Services model
• Secure h.323 endpoint
• Secure SIP endpoint
• H.350 enabled gatekeeper

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Emergency Communications

• Building on September 11 experiences with
  Columbia University
• Documenting GDS voice gateways
• Enables voice transport over ViDeNet in case
  local voice services are unavailble
• Provides an environment in which to explore
  inter-realm authentication and toll bypass.

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QoS Working Group

• Newly formed working group
• Exploring issues of packet marking for video and
  voice over IP
• Will be fully explored in Munch

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• Tyler Miller Johnson
• Tyler_Johnson_at_unc.edu