JISC / NSF All Projects Meeting - 25/6/2002 Greg Newton-Ingham| MAAS - Head of the National Advisory Service for Moving Pictures and Sound

Overview  Selection  Acquisition  Encoding  Management and Storage  Delivery  Use  Issues

MAAS  MAAS - Managing Agent & Advisory Service  BUFVC ( – BUND – TRILT – MIG – Hermes – Researchers Guide On-Line – Off-Air backup service – Courses, Conferences & Publications

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

Goals  Video and Audio as first class citizens  Pervasive  High Quality

Moving Image Issues  Content destruction  No national catalogue  No statutory deposit  Scholarly use is different

Selection  Peer Review  Content Experts  Rights Owners  Use Driven

Acquisition  Mother License  Rights Negotiations  Content Formats  Local content  Live Content

Encoding  Bureau  Regional Expertise  Quicktime & Windows Media Today x 768Kbits/sec inc. audio  Re-Encoding

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

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

QoS - Quality of Service  Movies need (end to end): – Low Latency - <100ms total budget – Low Jitter - < 10ms (MPEG) – Quality (Low error rate) – Allocated Bandwidth (768Kbps, 1.5M, 2M, 5M)

Net - Institutional  Awareness Raising  Network Design  Server & Client Placement

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

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

DNER - Future Watch  Digital Asset Management  ISMA Specifications  MPEG-2 (4:2:2P ML - When stable)  MPEG-4 (When available widely)  Metadata  US-MARC + DOI + INDECS  DAM & DRM Systems