Where is There!?
Internet2 and Multi-site Performances
Ann Doyle
Manager, Arts & Humanities Initiatives
Theatre Library Association Symposium, 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)

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

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

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

Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group

Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group
Co-sponsored by:
Internet2  www.internet2.edu
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) www.cni.org

Performance Archive and Retrieval Working Group
Staffed by:
Faculty (art, theater, music, ethnomusicology, library science)
Campus information technologists
Library of Congress
Proquest Information and Learning
Council on Library and Information Resources
Online Computer Library Center
Internet2
Coalition for Networked Information

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

Where do we go from here?
Invent and collaborate
Evaluate
Move from the extraordinary to the routine
Educate
Authenticate and authorize users
Encourage local and regional fiber efforts
Woo funding agencies

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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