1. Video and Streaming over Internet as a Component Portal Solution
Yuri Demchenko
Project Development Officer, TERENA

2. Video and Streaming over Internet as component Portal Solution
REIS Initiative
TERENA Academic Portal Initiative/Project
What do people need from Academic Portal?
Academic Portal as community Oriented Portal
Visual Information in Education and Research
Cataloguing/Browsing/Searching/Indexing
Educational Video and Streaming resources on the Internet
in Europe
in USA
in Commercial companies’ strategies

3. REIS Initiative (REsearch Indexing Service for Europe)
Started from BoF at TNNC’99
Main goal - to build pilot service for Research and Education community in Europe
Specific REIS features
Comprehensive coverage of Research-on-the-web
Both searchable and browsable by subject
Interactive search refinement
Finding Authoritative Resources - ”Topic Distillation”
Adaptive crawling and automatic (pre-)classification of gathered data
Attribute (metadata) searching
Dublin Core metadata search capability
Multilinguality and cross-language searching
Multilingual support in interface

4. TERENA Academic Portal Initiative/Project (TAP)
To supersede REIS
Answer on vital needs of R&A community in specific Information Service
Main components
Indexing/Searching tools/engine
Cross-Searching Automatic Indexes and human-made Subject Gateways
Directory services
Video-on-Demand and Streaming (plus hosting)
Content Replication
Portal as an access point to all what’s behind the Portal
All what community uses, develops and needs
Multilsite and multihome for services
Collaborative vs distributed

5. Academic Portal goals Community oriented Portal
Binding and assisting specific community
Virtual community with its Knowledge accumulation and domain specific resources
Research diversification and knowledge accumulation
Assistive services/tools for Researchers and Educators
building authorities in new domains
discovering knowledge/resources in European/worldwide Internet
Cooperation with industry
to help research community
to provide feedback and input from research community

6. What do people need from Academic Portal?
Information in specific research area
new and diverse areas not covered by existing classification and Subject Gateways
(Virtual) Community interaction
Possibility to talk to expert (become bound into community)
to communicate with people
to find colleagues
Video/audio materials
personalised experience
Build personal profiles and exchange of experience and findings
Shared bookmark - to accumulate highly professional experience
Access to Open Research area
Assistive tools
Automatic classification and knowledge mining

7. Academic Portal as Community Oriented Portal
To build successful Portal you need to find/build proper community
Community membership creates willingness to cooperate in resources and services creation and development
Bottom-up vs Top-down approach
Possibility to communicate between people (community members)
create cooperative environment
virtual (point of) presence
Finding relevant resources in diverse areas
Starting with specific area and specific services in general concept
Ask and propose to users
user needs driven approach

8. Academic Portal Value-Added Services
Combined with communication between researches
to explore common finding
building virtual community/presence
Knowledge Accumulation and Dissemination
Quality Information Resources enabled by “web-of-trust”
Advertisement from and linkage to the Scientific publishers

9. Back to Video&Streaming related issues
Overview and Information page

10. Visual Information in Education and Research
Conferences video archives vs Conference Proceedings
Q&A – Parallel sessions – (Parallel conferences)
Devoted lectures/seminars – Ad Hoc topics
Lectures by expert specialists
Exchange with both teacher and auditorium
Distance Education and Training
Courses on demand
Hands-on and practical lessons (e.g., surgery, fiber cabling, etc.)
Virtual classroom
Distinctive features
Live video/speech
Information humanisation/impersonalisation
Still paper-like information vs train-of-thought
Virtual presence

11. Visual materials Cataloguing/Browsing/Searching/Indexing
Textual description
Content/background/etc. Indexing/Searching
Image patterns
Image layers/Image decomposition
Video snapshots
Embedded/linked description?
Metadata
MPEG7

12. Video/Multimedia - Access issues
Organisational/University Internet
Home/modem Internet
Wireless/WAP Access
MPEG4
WAP Gateway to AP
Possibility to browse/preview video/audio information

13. Educational Video and Streaming Resources on the Internet - Europe
European archive
FUNET-TV -
SURFnet
Video and Streaming hosting -
Live Video broadcast at BELNET -
University of Namur Educational materials -
Israel -
University of Haifa - Weizmann Institute of Science - Ben Gurion University
More – to be descovered!

14. Educational Video and Streaming resources on the Internet - USA
Internet2 Video Development Initiative -
ResearchChannel -
Collaboration to experiment with high bandwidth modes of delivery and exchanges in educational and research-oriented information
Multi-University Research Laboratory Seminar Series -
MREN/CIC Digital Video Streaming
University of Washington - ResearchTV -
EE380 Colloquium at Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory -
Berkley Multimedia Research Center -

15. Video and Streaming in Company’s Strategies
IBM Web Lecture Services -
MP3 educational audio from Stardust.com MP3 University -
Directory on Educational Video at Yahoo! Broadcast.com -

16. Where are we going to go today?
Promote use of Video and Streaming services/archives
in knowledge rich/generating areas
Among universities and research institutions
Conferences
Extend VoD and Streaming hosting Services
Among NRENs
Maintain Directory of available resources
First try in form of List is at
Add index/description
Develop cataloguing/indexing tools for visual/audio information