The Video Development Initiative

The Video Development Initiative

Jill Gemmill, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

and Mary Trauner, Georgia Institute of

Technology (GIT)

EDUCAUSE 2002

Video Development Initiative - Educause, 2002

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From Good Idea to International Organization• Mission of ViDe• Current/Recent Activities• Evolution of the Organization

– Structuring Relationships– Activities– Funding

• Success, Failures, Challenges• Resources for you


Our MissionThe 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.


Who We Are• Started with a dinner conversation

at a Southeastern regional workshop• Expanded to include additional US

and International reps• Collaborations that architect,

“operationalize”, educate, and influence commercial video products and standards

• Research activities leveraging support from many organizations


Current Research/Activity Focus–Emerging Digital Video Technologies

–Middleware for Video–Data Collaboration Tools–Training & Outreach


Web Site:

www.vide.net


What We’ve Accomplished : Emerging Video Technologies• ViDe.Net Architecture

– Global VC Network of 100+ H.323 Zones – Adopted by Internet2 as basis for I2

Commons architecture– Voluntary cooperation in developing

uniform dialing around the world

• ViDe Dublin Core Application Profile for Digital Video Access Management

• RFI’s for new Technologies (MPEG-4)


What We’ve Accomplished : Middleware• Currently Developing

– Video Directory Services (Listing & Lookup)

– Integration with Enterprise Authentication (Login) Services

• Federated Digital Rights Management– Proposed DRM for Research &

Education


What We’ve Accomplished : Training & Outreach• 5 Workshops focused on Digital

Video– Use in Higher Education– Best Practices for Operations/Support– Integrating new technologies

• Videoconferencing Cookbook (versions 1, 2, and 3)

• ViDe Web Site (3500 Visitors/Month)


Recent Activities• 4th Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video

Workshop http://www.vide.net/resources/conferences/spr2002/

• New Working Groups:– Streaming Media [April 02]

•Streaming Video Cookbook– Numerical Addressing Space Management

[Mar 02]•alignment of H.323 space with E.164, in

preparation for moving toward DNS-like dialing and ENUM

http://www.vide.net/resources/conferences/spr2002/


Partnerships/Relationships • Southeastern Universities Research

Association (SURA)– History of Collaborative Regional

Environment – Financed by proceeds from sale of SURAnet– PACS Workshops (NSF-NCSA)

• Our Universities and CIO’s support ViDe time

• Collaboration with Internet2• Collaboration with Coalition for

Networked Information


Leveraging Partnerships to Support Activities• Bolt, Barnek & Newman• RADVISION• Internet2• Coalition for Networked

Information• Foundry Networks• Cisco• National Science Foundation


Phase I1998-99

UniversityOf

North Carolina

UniversityOf

Tennessee

North CarolinaState

GeorgiaInstitute ofTechnology

Structure

NYSERNet


Phase I1998-99

UniversityOf

North Carolina

UniversityOf

Tennessee

North CarolinaState


Activities

NYSERNet

Video Conferencing Video on Demand


Phase I1998-99

Activities


•Cookbook

•RFI

•ViDeNet Plan

•White Paper

•RFI


Phase I1998-99

UniversityOf

North Carolina

UniversityOf

Tennessee

North CarolinaState


Funding

NYSERNet


SURA


Phase II1999-2000

Structure

NYSERNet

Ohio State

UAB

Hawaii

GeorgeWashington

SouthCarolina

Yale

Vanderbilt

UT

CANARIE

William& Mary

UNC

GIT


Phase II1999-2000

Activities

NYSERNet

Ohio State

UAB

Hawaii

GeorgeWashington

SouthCarolina

Yale

Vanderbilt

UT

CANARIE

William& Mary

UNC

GIT



Phase II1999-2000

Activities


•Cookbook

Update

•LSVNP

•ViDeNet 1.0

•Video Portal•First ViDe/SURA

Workshop

•Vendor Partnerships

•Co-founded Internet2

Digital Video Initiative


Phase II1999-2000

Funding

NYSERNet

Ohio State

UAB

Hawaii

GeorgeWashington

SouthCarolina

Yale

Vanderbilt

UT

CANARIE

William& Mary

UNC

GIT


SURABBN

RADVISION


Phase III2001-2002

Structure

SURA

Ohio State

UAB

Indiana

AustralianNational

SURFNetRutgers

UT

CANARIE

UNC

GIT


EXPAND WGs andadd Members 150+ Members

SpecialActivity

Committees

Structure

Steering

Committee

ChairPast ChairChair Elect

StreamingVideoWG

VideoConferencing

WG

VideoAccess

WG

DataCollaboration

WGVideo

MiddlewareWG

Chair: Doug Pearson, Indiana

Past Chair: Jill Gemmill, UAB

Chair Elect: TBD

Steering CommitteeDoug Pearson, Indiana

Jill Gemmill, UABGrace Agnew, RutgersMarkus Buchhorn, ANU

Bob Dixon, OSUMike Estler, GITChris Hodge, UT

Tyler Johnson, UNCPeter Marshall, CANARIE

Mairead Martin, UTEd Price, GIT

Mary Trauner, GITEgon Verharen, SURFnetMary Fran Yafchak, SURA


Activities

Steering

Committee


StreamingVideoWG

VideoConferencing

WG

VideoAccess

WG

DataCollaboration

WGVideo

MiddlewareWG

Video Access Working Group(Grace Agnew, Rutgers)

•Digital Video Metadata Standard•Core Application Profile for

Digital Video•Annual Digital Video Workshop•Resources•Metadata Resources•Video Access Website

Data Collaboration Working Group(Mary Trauner, Georgia Tech)

•Higher Ed Needs Analysis•T.120 Analysis•Testing and Evaluation of Tools•Data Collaboration Website•Test Servers•White Paper

Streaming Video Working Group(Chris Hodge, UT; Mike Estler, Georgia Tech)

•Streaming Cookbook•MPEG4

Middleware for Video Working GroupVideoconferencing (Egon Verharen, SURFnet)Video-on-Demand (Mairéad Martin, UT)

Contributions to NMI v. 1.0•standardized methods for interoperable

access and services •federated administration model•commObject Class Definition •White papers:

•role of directories for Video on Demand•approaches to discovery of video resources

Videoconferencing Working Group

•ViDeNet (Tyler Johnson, UNC)•Internet2 Commons•Numerical Addressing Space Management

(Tyler Johnson, UNC)•Videoconferencing Cookbook (Mary Trauner,

GIT, and Mary Fran Yafchak, SURA)•ViDe Microsoft WG (Jill Gemmill, UAB)•ViDeNet Scout (Tyler Johnson, UNC)


Funding

Steering

Committee


StreamingVideoWG

VideoConferencing

WG

VideoAccess

WG

DataCollaboration

WGVideo

MiddlewareWG

SURA,Internet2, NSF,Foundry, Cisco,

NCSA PACSCNI


NSF Funded Programs• Invitational workshop "The NMI and

DRM“ – Grace Agnew and Mairead Martin– Endorsed by CNI, EDUCAUSE, I2, SURA,

and ViDe

• ViDeNet: Middleware for Scalable Video Services for Research and Higher Education – Jill Gemmill, Tyler Johnson, Egon

Verharen, Samir Chatterjee

• Digital Library: Moving Image Gateway– Grace Agnew, Ed Price, Jim DeRoest


Lessons Learned• Regional backing for first cookbook

provided elevated credibility and exposure• ViDeNet TestBed approach promotes

community standardized solutions very rapidly

• Members are from institutions, not institutional representatives

• Collaborate and don’t compete; maintain ViDe identity

• Collective efforts truly leveraged to achieve significant results


Successes, failures, challenges• Successes

– Videoconferencing Cookbook– ViDeNet– Relationship with SURA– NSF Funded Research Programs

• Not so successful– RFI Process

• Challenges– LSVNP Project– Administrative support for Chair– “Organizational Vaporware?”– Funding


How To Get Involved• Find a working group of interest

and talk to the working group chair about how to join– Working group includes: project teams

(workshops, cookbooks, ViDe.Net) and research interest groups

• ViDeNet “Munch” http://www.unc.edu/video/videnet/munch/

• Attend the 5th Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop (Spring 2003)

http://www.unc.edu/video/videnet/munch/




Resources

• ViDe website–http://www.vide.net

• Videoconferencing Cookbook–http://www.vide.net/cookboo

k/• ViDeNet Public Zone–http://www.vide.net/ Enter

VideNet

http://www.vide.net/

http://www.vide.net/cookbook/

http://www.vide.net/cookbook/

http://www.vide.net/

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