JISC / NSF All Projects Meeting - 25/6/2002

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JISC / NSF All Projects Meeting - 25/6/2002

• Greg Newton-InghamMAAS - Head of the National
  Advisory Service for Moving Pictures and Sound

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Overview

• Selection
• Acquisition
• Encoding
• Management and Storage
• Delivery
• Use
• Issues

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MAAS

• MAAS - Managing Agent Advisory Service
• BUFVC (www.bufvc.ac.uk)
• BUND
• TRILT
• MIG
• Hermes
• Researchers Guide On-Line
• Off-Air backup service
• Courses, Conferences Publications

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Strategy

• AV Content Technology Users Learning
• All three components need to be present and work
• Strategy Investing resources before they are
  required for service

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Goals

• Video and Audio as first class citizens
• Pervasive
• High Quality

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Moving Image Issues

• Content destruction
• No national catalogue
• No statutory deposit
• Scholarly use is different

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Selection

• Peer Review
• Content Experts
• Rights Owners
• Use Driven

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Acquisition

• Mother License
• Rights Negotiations
• Content Formats
• Local content
• Live Content

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Encoding

• Bureau
• Regional Expertise
• Quicktime Windows Media
• Today - 352 x 288 _at_ 768Kbits/sec inc. audio
• Re-Encoding

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Management Storage

• Data Centres
• Integrated National Approach
• Bibliographic Search Tools (e.g. Z39.50)
• Management, Storage and Delivery are distinct

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Delivery

• JANET - 10G now
• Content Delivery Architecture
• 8 Core POPs
• Hierarchical Delivery
• Wan -gt Man -gt Lan -gt Pan

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QoS - Quality of Service

• Movies need (end to end)
• Low Latency - lt100ms total budget
• Low Jitter - lt 10ms (MPEG)
• Quality (Low error rate)
• Allocated Bandwidth (768Kbps, 1.5M, 2M, 5M)

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Net - Institutional

• Awareness Raising
• Network Design
• Server Client Placement

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Use

• Teaching
• Research
• Business Support
• Social Use
• Anti-Social Use

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Issues - Lessons Learning

• Content in various forms
• Content negotiations is neither cheap nor
  straightforward
• We do not know how content will be used all
  exploring together
• Different to bibliographic content

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DNER - Future Watch

• Digital Asset Management
• ISMA Specifications
• MPEG-2 (422P ML - When stable)
• MPEG-4 (When available widely)
• Metadata
• US-MARC DOI INDECS
• DAM DRM Systems