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ResearchChannel: An Internet2 Content Repository and Test Bed
1/6/2004
DigitalWell has grown to include additional collections from the University of Washington, KEXP-FM, Library of Congress AMIA Moving Images Collections, and others. ResearchChannel has several international partners that have requested peering and mirroring of the ResearchChannel collection, and these projects are currently looking at how to preserve the limited network resources for both transatlantic and transpacific distribution.
Expanding DigitalWell to accommodate other collections and facilitate peer-to-peer access and content sharing continues with a partnership between ResearchChannel and Public Television, lead by Wisconsin Public Television and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Elinks Station Online Content Sharing project focuses on asset management and digital distribution of rich media content, allowing for the sharing of limited video resources. It is an Internet2-based repository and distribution test bed designed to evaluate the benefits and challenges of content sharing and collaboration in public service media.
ResearchChannel continues to investigate and develop new technologies for the Internet2 community through the ResearchChannel/Internet2 Working Group (http://www.researchchannel.org/projects/i2wg/). Experiments in multicast have lead to the capability to distribute a broadcast-quality stream over Internet and then re-distribute to cable systems, pushing the boundaries of the convergence of television and Internet. The Working Group is now focused on creating high-bandwidth and high-resolution interactive video over the Internet. Testing among Dartmouth, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania, and Internet2 will lead to video conferencing over IP that will showcase generations of improvement over existing technologies. Projects with organizations in Brazil and Korea will further expand content manipulation processes.
ResearchChannel will continue to experiment, lead, develop, integrate, and test technologies so that content from research and educational institutions will be directly available to the general public. It provides a platform for advancing IT solutions while providing models for use of advanced applications to positively impact the infrastructure of campus networks and system architecture.
Kathleen McMonigal (kmcm@cac.washington.edu) is general manager at ResearchChannel.
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