Internet2 Overview
and
Arts & Humanities Initiatives
Ann Doyle
Manager, Arts & Humanities Initiatives
International Council of Fine Arts Deans, Oct 2003

Internet2 Overview

Internet2 Mission
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

Internet2 is a not for profit membership organization
Regular
US institutions of higher education
Corporate
Partners
Sponsors
Members
Affiliate
Non-profit and other research or education organizations

Internet2 Universities
202 University Members, February 2003

Additional Participation
Over 60 Internet2 Corporate Partners,   Sponsors and Members
Over 30 Affiliate Members
Over 30 International Partners
Sponsored Education Group Participants

Internet2 Corporate Partners

Internet2 Affiliate Members
Altarum
American Distance Education Consortium
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
CENIC
CERN
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Cleveland Institute of Music
Cleveland Museum of Art
Department of Commerce, Boulder
Desert Research Institute
EDUCAUSE
Food and Drug Administration
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System (IHETS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratories
LaNet
Manhattan School of Music
MCNC
Merit Network, Inc.
MOREnet
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
National Institutes of Health
National Oceanic and Atmospheric  Administration – Silver Spring
National Science Foundation
New World Symphony
NYSERNet, Inc.
Oak Ridge National Labs
OARnet
OneNet

International MoU Partners
APAN-KR (Korea)
ARNES (Slovenia)
BELNET (Belgium)
CANARIE (Canada)
CARNET (Croatia)
CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (china)
APAN (Asia-pacific)
CESnet (Czech republic)
CUDI (Mexico)
DANTE (Europe)
DFN-Verein (Germany)
AAIREP (Australia)
Fundacion internet 2 Argentina (Argentina)
GIP RENATER (France)
GRNET (Greece)
HEAnet (Ireland)
HUNGARNET (Hungary)
INFN-GARR (Italy)
Israel-IUCC (Israel)
JAIRC (Japan)
JISC/UKERNA (UK)
JUCC (Hong Kong)
NORDUnet (Nordic countries)
POL-34 (Poland)
RCCN (Portugal)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RESTENA (Luxembourg)
REUNA (Chile)
RPN2 (Brazil)
SENACYT (Panama)
SingAREN (Singapore)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
TAnet2 (Taiwan)
TERENA (Europe)

Abilene International Peering
(January 2003)

Sponsored Education Group Participants

Abilene Network

Abilene Network
Core Map, February 2003

Abilene Network Infrastructure
Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) to 10 Gbps (OC192) capacity today
GigaPoPs provide regional high-performance aggregation points
Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps to the desktop

Applications

 Internet2 Applications
What are “Internet2 applications”?
They deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements in how we conduct research and engage in teaching and learning
They require advanced networks to work

Different Disciplines/Contexts
Sciences
Arts
Humanities
Health care
Business/Law
Administration
Library
Classroom
Clinic
Office
Laboratory
Dorm room

For example … Remote Collaboration

For example … Science & Engineering

For example … Health Sciences

Arts & Humanities Initiatives

Streaming Media
Indiana University
Georgetown University
Gallaudet University

Variations – Indiana University

ASL Poetry

Master Classes
University of Oklahoma
New World Symphony
Columbia University
Manhattan School of Music

University of Oklahoma
Felicia Moyer

New World Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas
photo by R. Andrew Lepley

Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music and CANARIE Inc.
Pinchas Zukerman

Live Performance Events

Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age

Cultivating Communities: Dance in the Digital Age

Technophobe and the Madman

Transcontinental Poetry Reading:
A Tribute to Kenneth Koch
 Live transcontinental reading of Kenneth Koch's "Twenty Poems"
 Seven Internet2 campuses provided  videoconferencing

Talk to your ICFAD Colleagues!
Screen writers course:
Bradley University
California State University, Los Angeles
Adapt collaborative dance project:
University of Utah
Ohio State University
Arizona State University
University of California, Irvine
Florida State University
Digital Radio programming:
University of South Florida
University of Washington

Video Clips
   Virtual Halloween at the Rialto
    New World Symphony Master Class
 Kinetic Shadows

Advisory and Working Groups

Performance Archive
and Retrieval
 A working group jointly sponsored by
 Coalition for Networked Information
 Internet2
 Designed to propose standards and best practices for documenting, archiving, and retrieving the recordings of performances such as live theatre, musical compositions, and dance

Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group
Produced two white papers:
Capturing Live Performance Events (http://arts.internet2.edu/files/performance-capture(v09).pdf)
Digital Asset Management
 (http://arts.internet2.edu/files/digital-asset-management(v09).pdf)
(compiled, edited and authorship contributions by University of Michigan intern, Leilani Dawson)

Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group
Capturing Live Performance Events:
Current practices in the field of digitally-recorded performance
Three budget categories: consumer, prosumer, professional
Scenarios: fixed site, fieldwork/mobile setup, multi-site
Lighting, video, audio

Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group
Digital Asset Management:
Intellectual property
Metadata standards, schemas, frameworks, and formats
Search and retrieval
Digital collection software/systems
Putting it all together

Internet2 Performance Arts Advisory Committee
Assist in the planning of innovative events that highlight the gifts of performers and artists from our member institutions and the capabilities of Internet2 technology-enabled performances
Best practices guide to multi-site performance events

Humanities Advisory Group
 Plans advanced networking activities in the Humanities arena
 Interest and activities are underway in the areas of museum education, language learning technologies, forensic debates, and film history
 Discussions will focus on current activities and brainstorming future ones that might be enhanced by advanced networking applications

New Arts & Humanities Communities

New Communities
 Museum Community
 Presented at Museums and the Web, March 2003
 Cleveland Museum of Art
 Foreign Language Instruction:
 Presented at the 2003 International Association for Language Learning Technology conference (IALLT)
 Archaeology Forum

More Info ...
www.internet2.edu
adoyle@internet2.edu
apps.internet2.edu/talks/
Ann Doyle
    Internet2
    3025 Boardwalk Suite 100
    Ann Arbor, MI 48108
    +1.734.352.7011

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