1. An On-Demand Media Repository

2. Agenda What is Pacific Lighthouse? (Wilke) CENIC/UW/Internet2 Connections (Evans) Other partners (Wilke) Technology (DeRoest) ResearchChannel (McMonigal) Challenges (Evans) Q&A

3. Imagine the Possibilities

4. Jazz, anyone?

5. What is Pacific Lighthouse? A research collaboration between UW, CENIC, providers of digital collections, and school partners An on-demand media repository built upon MediaWeb technology, I2 middleware, and the high-performance advanced services networks in California and Washington An investigation into the pedagogical uses of digital libraries

6. Pacific Lighthouse Development Partners University of Washington, Educational Partnerships & Learning Technologies CENIC (Corporation for Educational Networking in California)

7. I2 Member Universities

8. K-20 Networks Washington’s K-20 network Digital California K-20 network

9. K-20 Collaboration

10. Goals of Pacific Lighthouse To evaluate the performance of Internet2 technologies (e.g., MediaWeb), and identify issues associated with use To determine how teachers and students might use digital collections as primary source materials To assess the usefulness of multi-media digital collections for pedagogical purposes

11. Potential Content Partners The ResearchChannel (UW) Radio stations KEXP (Seattle) and KCRW (Santa Monica) The Densho Project and Visual History Foundation (Survivors of the SHOAH) California Digital Library (UC) Conversations with History (UC) The Jason Project

12. Potential School Partners Aberdeen Schools, WA Tukwila Schools, WA Seattle Schools, WA Tulare County Schools, CA Pomona Schools, CA Other CA and WA schools TBA

13. Parallel Project Pacific Lighthouse is a complementary project to Viewing the Future, a video repository aligned with Michigan educational standards that is being created by a partnership between UW and MERIT

14. Scaling Up By means of the SEGP structure, the National Internet2 K-20 initiative will leverage both Pacific Lighthouse and Viewing the Future to provide access to a wide variety of on-demand media first to additional states, and then to the national K-20 community

15. Jim DeRoest Back end engineering Digital Asset Management – MediaWeb Middleware MPEG2 and HD Service On-Demand Kiosk Demonstration

16. Robotic Tape Robotic Tape Disk Cache Disk Cache Media Store Asset Metadata Asset Metadata Remote Stream Manager Remote Stream Manager Request Director Transcoding Metadata Creation, Admin Asset Management Services TV Broadcast Services Radio DJ Services Delivery Services Image, Quicktime, Windows, Real, HD, Webcasting …

17. MediaWeb Topology Streaming Cluster Robotic Tape Silos Archive Robotic Tape Silos Archive Site 1 Site 2 Channel Switch Streaming Cluster Internet Web & Stream Mgrs Web & Stream Mgrs

18. Middleware DB, Directory, XML, OAI – Discovery I2 VidMid VoD MERIT Proposal AMIA MIG Proposal DRM

19. MPEG2 and HD Service Broadcast On Demand Broadcast Live Stream MPEG2 MJPEG

20. On-Demand Kiosk Demo RC MPEG2, KEXP Archive

21. Kathleen McMonigal

22. ResearchChannel Participants Participants: Baylor College of Medicine Carnegie Mellon University Duke University George Mason University Georgia Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Massachusetts Institute of Technology National University of Singapore Oregon Health and Science University Princeton University Rice University Stanford University Tufts University University of Alaska-Fairbanks

23. ResearchChannel Participants, cont’d. University of Chicago University of Colorado University of Hawaii University of Houston University of Maryland-College Park University of North Carolina University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Texas -Austin University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Vanderbilt University Virginia Tech Yale University

24. ResearchChannel Participants, cont’d. CENIC Internet2 National Academies National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Sciences National Institutes of Health National Institute of Standards and Technology National Sea Grant College Program R1edu.org Research Centers: IBM Corporation Sony Electronics Inc.

25. ResearchChannel Goals Create a recognized global media presence for research activity Provide a high-quality, accessible resource for research information Encourage collaborations and technology experiments among ResearchChannel participants to develop new methods of distribution

26. Internet Viewership 35,000 requests for web pages, Webcasts, and on- demand files fulfilled per month Viewership from around the world

27. Program Access Via Internet: Top Domains

28. Organization Board Four Advisory Councils: -Programming -Technology -Fundraising -International Annual meetings, conferences, seminars Internet Streaming Projects and Digital Media Management

29. Benefits-Distribution Content for Broadcasts and Webcasts Encoding of Content for On- Demand Access to Expert Resources Downlink for Retransmission to Local Area

30. ResearchChannel Programming 40 New Programs Premier Each Month

31. Programs by Subject Computer Science 28% Social Science 25% Medical & Health Science 19% Language & Literature 4% Life & Physical Science 6% Arts 4% Engineering & Technology 3% K-12 & Higher Education 6% Business 5%

32. Challenges Funding Intellectual property issues Bandwidth Location of media Branding of resources Appropriateness of materials Teacher acceptance/training Ongoing management and support of repository

33. Goals of Pacific Lighthouse To evaluate the performance of Internet2 technologies (e.g., MediaWeb), and identify issues associated with use To determine how teachers and students might use digital collections as primary source materials To assess the usefulness of multi-media digital collections for pedagogical purposes

34. Questions?